Maternal mortality: study of the epimemic profile in a school maternity

The authors analyzed 12 cases of maternal death that happened at the School Maternity Assis Chateaubriand – Federal University of Ceará after implantation of the Committee of maternal mortality implanted in October of 1999 to the year 2000. The age group prevailed from 30 to 38 years (41,6%), pregna...

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Main Authors: Maria Ivoneide Veríssimo de Oliveira, Sarah Maria Fraxe Pessoa, Rosiléa Alves de Sousa, Maria Rosimar de Jesus Barbosa
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Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará 2002-02-01
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/5723
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author Maria Ivoneide Veríssimo de Oliveira
Sarah Maria Fraxe Pessoa
Rosiléa Alves de Sousa
Maria Rosimar de Jesus Barbosa
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Sarah Maria Fraxe Pessoa
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Maria Rosimar de Jesus Barbosa
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description The authors analyzed 12 cases of maternal death that happened at the School Maternity Assis Chateaubriand – Federal University of Ceará after implantation of the Committee of maternal mortality implanted in October of 1999 to the year 2000. The age group prevailed from 30 to 38 years (41,6%), pregnant with 02 or more children (66,6%) and the second half of the gestation was the age of pregnancy of occurrence of the death (41%). in relation to prenatal attendance, most had done 5 to 7 consultations (58,3%), presenting (41,6%), of maternal risk, needing attendance. On the 12 investigated cases, 25% of the women were transferred from other hospitals arriving in the institution in serious state. The eclâmpsia was the cause more common of the deaths (33,3%) following by the pré-eclâmpsia and premature labor with (16%). as for the decisive factors of the death, the cerebral vascular accident and the coagulation disturbance contributed with (25%) and the Syndrome of Help with (16%). The direct obstetric causes were responsible for (80%) of the deaths. The results pointed the disease specific hipertensiva of the gestation (DHEG) as main cause of the presented deaths, whose frequent occurrence takes us to render about the attendance and the need of adoption of specific measures for this pathology.  
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spelling doaj-art-1d0ae03ad7364ff1b0a9090bcef6b9e02025-08-21T14:00:50ZengUniversidade Federal do CearáRev Rene1517-38522175-67832002-02-0131Maternal mortality: study of the epimemic profile in a school maternityMaria Ivoneide Veríssimo de OliveiraSarah Maria Fraxe PessoaRosiléa Alves de SousaMaria Rosimar de Jesus BarbosaThe authors analyzed 12 cases of maternal death that happened at the School Maternity Assis Chateaubriand – Federal University of Ceará after implantation of the Committee of maternal mortality implanted in October of 1999 to the year 2000. The age group prevailed from 30 to 38 years (41,6%), pregnant with 02 or more children (66,6%) and the second half of the gestation was the age of pregnancy of occurrence of the death (41%). in relation to prenatal attendance, most had done 5 to 7 consultations (58,3%), presenting (41,6%), of maternal risk, needing attendance. On the 12 investigated cases, 25% of the women were transferred from other hospitals arriving in the institution in serious state. The eclâmpsia was the cause more common of the deaths (33,3%) following by the pré-eclâmpsia and premature labor with (16%). as for the decisive factors of the death, the cerebral vascular accident and the coagulation disturbance contributed with (25%) and the Syndrome of Help with (16%). The direct obstetric causes were responsible for (80%) of the deaths. The results pointed the disease specific hipertensiva of the gestation (DHEG) as main cause of the presented deaths, whose frequent occurrence takes us to render about the attendance and the need of adoption of specific measures for this pathology.  https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/5723Hypertensionpregnancymaternal mortalitycomplications.
spellingShingle Maria Ivoneide Veríssimo de Oliveira
Sarah Maria Fraxe Pessoa
Rosiléa Alves de Sousa
Maria Rosimar de Jesus Barbosa
Maternal mortality: study of the epimemic profile in a school maternity
Rev Rene
Hypertension
pregnancy
maternal mortality
complications.
title Maternal mortality: study of the epimemic profile in a school maternity
title_full Maternal mortality: study of the epimemic profile in a school maternity
title_fullStr Maternal mortality: study of the epimemic profile in a school maternity
title_full_unstemmed Maternal mortality: study of the epimemic profile in a school maternity
title_short Maternal mortality: study of the epimemic profile in a school maternity
title_sort maternal mortality study of the epimemic profile in a school maternity
topic Hypertension
pregnancy
maternal mortality
complications.
url https://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/5723
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