PubMed · 424119
Post-traumatic coma during pregnancy.
Abstract
A pregnant woman suffered massive head injuries in an automobile accident at 6 weeks' gestation, but she successfully carried the fetus an additional 7 months. The patient remained comatose and required nasogastric feeding and skilled nursing care. The pregnancy was complicated by a persistent low-grade fever. Premature labor began at 34 weeks' gestation, and 24 hours after rapid vaginal delivery of a live 1640-g female, the mother suddenly died. The child is developing normally at 2 years.
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M B Sampson, L P Petersen. 1979. Post-traumatic coma during pregnancy.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/424119/
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