Gunshot wound to the pregnant uterus: case report

• Autor(a) principal: Osnaya-Moreno,Humberto
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Zaragoza Salas,Tahitiana Abelina, Escoto Gomez,Jorge Armando, Mondragon Chimal,Marco Antonio, Torres Castaneda,Maria De Lourdes, Jimenez Flores,Mauro
• Tipo de documento: Relatório
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetrícia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-72032013000900008
• topic: Wounds, gunshot; Pregnant women; Wounds and injuries; Uterus; Abdomen; Case reports

Crime and violence have become a public health problem. Pregnant women have not been the exception and gunshot injuries occupy an important place as a cause of trauma. An important fact is that pregnant women, who suffer trauma, are special patients because pregnancy causes physiological and anatomical changes. Management of these patients should be multidisciplinary, by the general surgeon, the obstetrician and the neonatologist. However, even trauma referral centers could neither have the staff nor the ideal training for these specific cases. In this context we present the following case.