[The results of the therapeutic monitoring of piracetam in parturients and newborn infants].

Overall 30 women in childbirth with preeclampsia and fetoplacental dysfunction received piracetam solution which was given initially in a dose of 5 g by intravenous drip, rapidly since the onset of labour and then every 2 hours till the end of labour in a dose of 2 g by jet injection. This made it possible to increase fetus resistance to hypoxic conditions. The concentrations of piracetam within the range of 60-80 g/l in the blood of women in childbirth should be viewed as minimum therapeutic. A single daily intramuscular injection of piracetam (50 mg/kg) into neonates with encephalopathies may build up blood concentrations equal to 25-60 mg/l after 2 hours. The drug is not detectable in the blood by the moment the next injection is given.