Causes and frequency of physical trauma in pregnancy
Background: Trauma is one of the main causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in societies, which annually causes millions of deaths worldwide and imposes a high financial burden on health facilities, the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of physical trauma and its associated f...
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| description | Background: Trauma is one of the main causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in societies, which annually causes millions of deaths worldwide and imposes a high financial burden on health facilities, the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of physical trauma and its associated factors during pregnancy.
Methods: All data for this cross-sectional study were collected from medical records of pregnant women, who referred to the Mahdeeyeh Hospital in Tehran, Iran, as a result of trauma through 2015. Information related to the pregnant women with trauma was extracted from their medical records based on a researcher-made collection form. All patients who meet criteria for entering the study (based on entry and exit criteria from the study) were selected as samples. The significance level of the tests was considered as P<0/05, the Spearman correlation coefficient tests and Chi-square were used.
Results: A total of 68 people were enrolled on the basis of selected criteria, meanwhile, the mean age of subjects was 26 years and 100% had no history of abortion. In all cases the trauma was blunt and included 63% abdominal, 24% lower back, and 14% flank trauma. Abortion was reported in 3% and 8% of the cases with abdominal and lower back trauma, respectively. Also, according to the results of this study, in cases where the placental abruption (six cases) were lateral face pairs, in all of them physical trauma was also posed. It is necessary in the traumatic pregnant women referring with placental abruption symptoms and sign, due to the legal importance of doing a thorough examination and sonography, the type of placental abruption (lateral or central) is made sure and then documented in patients' files.
Conclusion: Physical trauma also is common in the pregnant women and the lateral aspect placental abruption can be one of the obvious evidence for physical trauma. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8b174c601da64435b2b5e87b0dc6332d2022-12-21T19:49:44ZfasTehran University of Medical SciencesTehran University Medical Journal1683-17641735-73222019-05-01773166171Causes and frequency of physical trauma in pregnancyFares Najari0Babak Mostafazadeh1Mitra Bahrami2Dorsa Najari3 Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Background: Trauma is one of the main causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in societies, which annually causes millions of deaths worldwide and imposes a high financial burden on health facilities, the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of physical trauma and its associated factors during pregnancy. Methods: All data for this cross-sectional study were collected from medical records of pregnant women, who referred to the Mahdeeyeh Hospital in Tehran, Iran, as a result of trauma through 2015. Information related to the pregnant women with trauma was extracted from their medical records based on a researcher-made collection form. All patients who meet criteria for entering the study (based on entry and exit criteria from the study) were selected as samples. The significance level of the tests was considered as P<0/05, the Spearman correlation coefficient tests and Chi-square were used. Results: A total of 68 people were enrolled on the basis of selected criteria, meanwhile, the mean age of subjects was 26 years and 100% had no history of abortion. In all cases the trauma was blunt and included 63% abdominal, 24% lower back, and 14% flank trauma. Abortion was reported in 3% and 8% of the cases with abdominal and lower back trauma, respectively. Also, according to the results of this study, in cases where the placental abruption (six cases) were lateral face pairs, in all of them physical trauma was also posed. It is necessary in the traumatic pregnant women referring with placental abruption symptoms and sign, due to the legal importance of doing a thorough examination and sonography, the type of placental abruption (lateral or central) is made sure and then documented in patients' files. Conclusion: Physical trauma also is common in the pregnant women and the lateral aspect placental abruption can be one of the obvious evidence for physical trauma.http://tumj.tums.ac.ir/article-1-9713-en.htmlabruption placentaephysical traumapregnancypregnancy complications |
| spellingShingle | Fares Najari Babak Mostafazadeh Mitra Bahrami Dorsa Najari Causes and frequency of physical trauma in pregnancy Tehran University Medical Journal abruption placentae physical trauma pregnancy pregnancy complications |
| title | Causes and frequency of physical trauma in pregnancy |
| title_full | Causes and frequency of physical trauma in pregnancy |
| title_fullStr | Causes and frequency of physical trauma in pregnancy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Causes and frequency of physical trauma in pregnancy |
| title_short | Causes and frequency of physical trauma in pregnancy |
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| topic | abruption placentae physical trauma pregnancy pregnancy complications |
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