Acute non-obstetrical diseases during pregnancy and role of the obstetrician

The management of a pregnant woman with an acute non-obstetrical disease must be made in narrow collaboration with an obstetrician. This one must be warned from the beginning of the care of the patient. In a pregnant woman, any acute medical, surgical or traumatic non-obstetrical disease can have obstetrical consequences. The diagnostic and therapeutic management of an acute non-obstetrical disease can have iatrogenic consequences during pregnancy. The most often described risks are early pregnancy loss, intra-uterine fetal death, placenta abruption, direct fetal hurts, preterm labor, prematurity and its complications. Obstetrical complications can induce maternal and neonatal life-threatening risks. Simple and easily accessible examinations in emergency allow detecting the obstetrical consequences of an acute non-obstetrical disease. During the management of an acute non-obstetrical disease in a pregnant woman, the induced obstetrical consequence of the disease can require emergency action of the obstetrician in conditions associated with maternal life-threatening risk. During the management of an acute non-obstetrical disease in a pregnant woman, once the mother condition was stabilized, the obstetrician had to estimate the fetal consequences and to adapt his or her therapeutic attitude. He or she sets up the fetal and placental surveillance adapted to the obstetrical risks and decides on the duration of this surveillance.