Researchers analyzed data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample during the years 1998 through 2011 and obtained weighted estimates of the number of U.S. hospitalizations for delivery complicated by maternal cardiac arrest.
The study found that approximately one in 12,000 hospitalizations for delivery is complicated by cardiac arrest, most frequently caused due to hemorrhage, heart failure, amniotic fluid embolism or sepsis. Among patients with cardiac arrest, 58.9 of patients survived to hospital discharge.
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