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Mathieu Genoud1, Laurent Suppan1, Majd Ramlawi1

  • 1Service des urgences (SU), Département de médecine communautaire, de premier recours et des urgences, HUG, 1211 Genève 14.

Revue Medicale Suisse
|August 10, 2018
PubMed

Nonobstetric emergencies are frequent during pregnancy. The emergency physician must be knowledgeable regarding the physiological changes related to pregnancy, and must evaluate the benefit/risk ratio of any medication given to the mother. Though maternal side-effects are easy to predict, the fetal risk remains difficult to evaluate as medications are numerous and clinical evidence scarce. For analgesia as for sedation, the choice will depend on both the clinical context of the patient, the desired objective, and the assumed fetal risk.

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