Résumé
Though reporting and monitoring of trauma to pregnant patients is very low, it is a major cause of maternal death in the present active life style. Trauma during pregnancy is more likely due to an accidental fall and changes in body stability during pregnancy from records of obstetricians and anaesthetists of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre [JPMC], during the last 5 years 16 cases of trauma to pregnant women were identified including motor vehicle accidents [9], assault [3] and fall [4]. Of these 16 cases two were in the 2nd trimester and the rest in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy. Emergency laparotomy was done in one case and Cesarean section in five. Nine cases were discharged undelivered after 72 hours of monitoring and two cases died in emergency unit during resuscitation. There were two foetal losses one with a direct bullet injury and the other with placental abruption due to pelvic fracture