About 400 women from Bizkaia have controlled pregnancy and pregnancy Psicofármacos Unit of the Psychiatric Service of Hospital de Cruces.

About 400 women from Bizkaia have controlled pregnancy and pregnancy Psicofármacos Unit of the Psychiatric Service of Hospital de Cruces.

The Unit has not detected by use of psychotropic medication problems beyond the normal casuistry, which expresses the guarantee offered maintenance treatment under control.


The Psychoactive Drugs and Pregnancy Unit of the Psychiatric Service of Hospital de Cruces which coordinates Robador Ana psychiatrist has, since 2000, the date of its foundation in a referral center for women who want to stay or have become pregnant suffer mental pathology. Over the past eight years around 400 women have taken the course of her pregnancy under close monitoring of that unit, immersed in the category of pathological pregnancies and the interaction of various specialists. It is the best way to control the whole process, says the coordinator of the Unit, Psychiatry Service dependent but closely related, in turn, with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Neonatology of the Hospital.

In these and other issues Robador Ana speech at the conference's closing day organized by the extraordinary Basque-Navarra of Psychiatry. Throughout this period, the Unit has not encountered problems by use of psychotropic medication beyond the normal casuistry, which expresses the guarantee offered maintenance treatment under control. Ana Robador said, though, that when it can not all cases seen are of the same gravity-medication is recommended as little as possible in the first trimester of pregnancy.

It is a simple matter. Many patients come to the Hospital de Cruces derived from other schools and when they are pregnant. Perhaps not noticed the pregnancy until after the first month and during this period have been medicated. That is why the unit has begun to recommend pregnancy planning to withdraw the drugs of greatest risk.

Ana Robador emphasizes that not all cases treated in the unit due to severe psychiatric disorders, which are those that require closer monitoring. There are also women who have, for example, moderate anxiety disorders that require specific monitoring of her pregnancy.