Intra‐abdominal hypertension in pregnancy: Need for generating more evidence before providing sound clinical management recommendations

It's high time for intra‐abdominal hypertension guidelines in pregnancy after more than 100 years of measuring pressures

“…The questions raised by Garg & Tyagi illustrate a fundamental challenge related to the limitations and heterogeneity of published original research on intra‐abdominal pressure (IAP) in pregnancy. We sought to coalesce data into clinically meaningful recommendations for the diagnosis and management of intra‐abdominal hypertension (IAH) and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) in pregnancy .…”

“…The request by Garg & Tyagi for more evidence comes more than 100 years after Paramore first measured IAP in pregnant patients. Even with ongoing research, nothing suggests that practice‐changing data are imminent.…”