Obstetrics

Pregnant women at risk for injury in summer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 14th, 2005

Most pregnant women don't drink, speed, or behave recklessly; yet many will end up in trauma rooms across Canada this summer.

According to a new study, to be published in the July 2005 Journal of Trauma and led by Donald Redelmeier, director of Clinical Epidemiology and a practicing physician at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Center, risks are too high for pregnant women during the summer, amounting to approximately one major trauma case per day in Canada.

"What this implies is that the summer surge in trauma rates is not caused by alcohol or reckless behavior alone as pregnant women generally stay away from these activities,"...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-07-14)

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