@article{ref1,
title="The effects of traffic accidents on pregnancy: is hospitalization necessary in every case?",
journal="Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi",
year="2020",
author="Temurlenk, Aslı Tuğçe and Çevik, Meral and Soysal, Didem and Soysal, Sunullah and Denizbaşı, Arzu and Pekin, Tanju",
volume="27",
number="1",
pages="73-78",
abstract="BACKGROUND: This study aimed to show whether it is necessary to hospitalize pregnant women who have been involved in traffic accidents. <br><br>METHODS: Patients at a hospital  in Istanbul, Turkey, who underwent traffic accidents between 2012 and 2018 were  studied, and pregnant patients' files were evaluated. Demographic and obstetric  features of patients, type of accident, type of trauma, Glasgow Coma Score, whether  or not hospitalization were examined, the response of patients to hospitalization,  and the obstetric and maternal results of accidents were assessed. <br><br>RESULTS: In the  present study, 95 patients were included. Overall, hospitalization was recommended  for 50 patients, but of these, 58% refused to be admitted. No patients who refused  hospitalization had complications. Preterm labor was seen in 3.2% of patients, while  3.2% had a fetal loss and 5.3% had a placental abruption. Only one mother was lost  (1.1%) due to sustaining multiple traumas in a traffic accident. Hospitalization was  increasingly indicated with increasing gestational age, but other parameters had no  effect on hospitalization. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The likelihood that hospitalization was  recommended for pregnant women involved in traffic accidents increased with  gestational age. Patients with minor trauma who refused hospitalization had no  complications.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1306-696X",
doi="10.14744/tjtes.2020.25668",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.14744/tjtes.2020.25668"
}