'Women who are pregnant or recently pregnant can become unwell suddenly with catastrophic consequences for mothers, babies and their families if deterioration isn’t recognised and acted upon quickly.'

Dr Debbie Horner
Deputy Medical Director, Bradford Teaching Hospitals
(Lead author of  the ICS Enhanced Maternal Care Units: Guidance on Development and Implementation)

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Guidance ​ 

Enhanced Maternal Care Units: Guidance on Development and Implementation, ICS 2023

MBRRACE-UK Mothers and Babies Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK

Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA) (2018), Care of the critically ill woman in childbirth; enhanced maternal care.

Reducing the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium. Green - top Guidance No 37a. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (April 2015)
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Resources 

Pregnant/Postpartum admission to critical care - Checklist 

Development of a national early warning score: centile based score development and Delphi informed escalation pathways (Gerry et al; BMJ Medicine, 2024)

Acute Care Toolkit 15
Managing acute medical problems in pregnancy. Royal College of Physicians (2019)

Resuscitation Council UK - Obstetric Cardiac Arrest (2021) 

Obstetric Critical Care Checklist 

Bumps - Best use of medicine in pregnancy 

Moms - MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society 

Educational Resources

Maternal Competencies for Registered Nurses (CC3N, 2024)