Volume : 8, Issue : 3, March - 2019

AN EIGHT YEARS RETROSPECTIVE STUDY TO ASSESS MATERNAL AND FETAL MORTALITY IN BURN WITH PREGNENCY

Dr Arun Bhatnagar, Dr Anand Gautam

Abstract :

This study was undertaken to assess the parameters that may predict maternal and foetal outcome in 170 thermally injured pregnant women in a Burn unit in Gandhi Medical College Bhopal in the past 8 years. Burns suffered during pregnancy is common and can be a devastating injury. The presence of a fetus creates many special maternal physiological changes, and the burn wound further adds to the stress on these body systems. In first and second trimester foetal survival depends on maternal survival and in the last trimester fetal maturity determines fetal survival. Maternal survival is low when the burn wound exceeds 50% of total body surface area. So the management protocol in a pregnant burn female has to be tailored, taking into consideration the additional factor of fetal well-being and the fetal susceptibility to various agents.