Maternal Critical Care

Maternal critical care: identifying at-risk women and understanding the short and long term consequences of critical illness in pregnant or recently pregnant women

About 1 in 100 women experience life-threatening illness (‘critical illness’) during pregnancy or childbirth. We aim to measure the number of pregnant women who need critical care, identify those women at highest risk of needing critical care, and report the short and long-term health consequences of surviving critical care for pregnant women and their babies.

Chief Investigator: Dr Nazir Lone

Number and location of participating sites (by region/ country): Scotland (national cohort)

EudraCT number: N/A

Funder: Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association

Start and End date

Grant: 1 October 2018 to 31 October 2021

Current Status: In setup

Trial Unblinding Information: N/A

Contact details:

Chief Investigator: Dr Nazir Lone, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Critical Care, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Consultant in Critical Care, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG; nazir.lone@ed.ac.uk

Trial manager:  N/A

Research nurses: N/A

ECTU involvement: Statistics