Key result
Management of traumatic brain injury during pregnancy requires a multidisciplinary approach to optimize maternal resuscitation while minimizing teratogenic risks and radiation exposure to the fetus.
Why the study?
Traumatic brain injury during pregnancy impacts both mother and foetus, presenting management challenges across altered maternal physiology from resuscitation to rehabilitation.
Comprehensive management of TBI in pregnant patients necessitates a multidisciplinary approach to balance maternal resuscitation and fetal safety.
TBI in pregnancy demands specialized maternal-fetal monitoring; leaves open optimal protocol development in this high-risk population.
Trauma is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality amongst females of childbearing age, and traumatic brain injury (TBI) carries a significant proportion of share amongst trauma of all kinds. Trauma during pregnancy has a twofold impact on the patient and the foetus, who, most of the time, remains unnoticed. Understanding and managing altered maternal physiology in the background of TBI is a challenge and requires close monitoring to avoid any unwanted outcome. The challenges initiate right from the resuscitation following trauma to the rehabilitation of these patients with TBI during pregnancy. Good collaboration with the interdisciplinary departments is the backbone to avoid teratogenicity, a better pregnancy outcome and prevention of expected complications in these complex clinical scenarios.
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Haldar et al. (2023) conducted a review in Traumatic brain injury during pregnancy. Neurocritical care and multidisciplinary management was evaluated. Management of traumatic brain injury during pregnancy requires a multidisciplinary approach to optimize maternal resuscitation while minimizing teratogenic risks and radiation exposure to the fetus.
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