The maternal morbidity behavior during the puerperium. Cienfuegos, 2020
<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> during the puerperium there are causes of maternal complications that compromise the woman’s life, a stage that requires continuous monitoring and successful action by health professionals. It is important in the world and in Cuba to monitor the mate...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Medisur |
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| Online Access: | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/5741 |
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| Summary: | <p><strong>Foundation:</strong> during the puerperium there are causes of maternal complications that compromise the woman’s life, a stage that requires continuous monitoring and successful action by health professionals. It is important in the world and in Cuba to monitor the maternal deaths causes’ behavior and the mater-nal patients morbidity in critical condition, for the application of organizational, control and action stra-tegies to improve this indicator.<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> to characterize the maternal morbidity behavior during the puerperium.<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> descriptive, cross-sectional study on the morbidity of puerperal women at the Cienfuegos Provincial Hospital, during the year 2020. The universe was composed of 3563 births that occurred. A form for data collection was developed. The analyzed variables were: maternal age, type of delivery, birth weight, gestational age, state of the newborn at birth, and severe and non-serious maternal morbi-dity.<br /><strong>Results:</strong> there was women predominance between 20 and 34 years of age (76%); 57.9% had eutocic delivery. The postpartum women with maternal morbidity due to severe sepsis were 79 women (2.2%) and with non-serious morbidity 397 women (11.1%). <br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> severe sepsis, preeclampsia-eclampsia, and postpartum hemorrhage are the entities that were mostly observed in severe maternal morbidity; those with non-serious morbidity had low birth weight newborns and postpartum anemia.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1727-897X |