[Epidemiology of gyneco-obstetric emergencies (within the framework of emergency medical care)].

The authors studied over a period of four years emergencies in pregnancy. These were seen in patients who were brought in from an outside hospital to a perinatal centre or when transferred from hospitals to a general maternity unit or to a high risk unit for neonatal and maternity care. 382 pregnant women needed to be looked after (293 from outside hospital and 89 transferred from another hospital). Treatment was given especially in the 3rd trimester of the pregnancy to three groups: before labour (60 cases); during labour (211 cases) and; after delivery (30 cases). There were in the same categories 37 cases before labour, 9 cases during labour and 30 cases after labour transferred from one hospital to another. The diagnosis were, in particular, 47 cases with a high risk of premature labour, 5 cases with haemorrhage and placenta praevia, 27 cases of pre-eclampsia, 211 cases in labour of which 120 were outside hospital. There were 14 cases of maternal illness, 3 cases of trauma and 4 cases of cardiac arrest. There was a high risk of prematurity in 33 cases of labour outside a maternity hospital. The neonatal mortality rate for the first six days after delivery was ten times higher than that for all neonates born in the same county in the same period of time as this series took. But the authors noted that pre-eclampsia cases received care at high risk units but premature cases did not necessarily. Language: fr