Anaesthetic management of parturient with malaria and thrombocytopaenia.

Abstract

Malarial infection during pregnancy is a significant public health problem with substantial risk for the pregnant woman and newborn child. Globally, 125 million women are at risk every year. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 23 million pregnant women are exposed to malarial infection annually and approximately 400,000 pregnant women develop moderate to severe anaemia.[1] We report successful perioperative management of case of Plasmodium vivax infection in full-term parturient who presented with thrombocytopaenia and deep transverse arrest and subsequently developed right occipito-parietal haematoma with mass effect.