Abstract:Medical emergencies in pregnant patients pose a great challenge. Due to a lack of experience many emergency care providers are uncertain about which drugs can be used and the dosage. The following article reviews the physiological changes during pregnancy, general considerations about pharmacotherapy in pregnant patients and highlights typical emergency scenarios with the corresponding recommendations for which drugs to use in pregnant patients.
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.