TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Cardiac Arrest A1 - Levy, Lior A2 - Hess, Philip E. A2 - Li, Yunping A2 - Kowalczyk, John J. A2 - Stiles, Justin K. PY - 2023 T2 - Obstetric Anesthesia: Quick References & Practical Guides AB - Cardiac arrest in pregnancy is a particularly distressing emergency where we are caring for a patient with altered physiology and her unborn fetus. The U.S. Nationwide Inpatient Sample reports the cardiac arrest rate to be 1 in 12,000 pregnant women admitted for delivery. While survival to discharge of in-hospital arrest in nonpregnant women is shy of 30%, pregnant women fair much better; surviving at ∼58%. Given the rate of survival, familiarity with the management of cardiac arrest in pregnancy should have our full attention.1-3 SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1199673316 ER -