Pregnancy complications/mortality/prevention and controlPercentage of deliveries assisted by a skilled birth attendant (SBA) has become a proxy indicator for reducing maternal mortality in developing countries, but there is little data on SBA competence. Our objective was to evaluate the competence of ...
The partogram is a key tool for early recognition of complications in labor and allows for prompt referral [83, 84]. This tool, used to assess the progression of labor and delivery, documents cervical dilation and fetal heart rate over time and alerts the attendant to slow or abnormal ...
100 maternal deaths per year. According to the Guttmacher Institute, of the 4.4 million abortions performed in all of Latin America in 2008,95 percent were unsafe. About760,000 women are hospitalizedfor complications from these substandard procedures each year....
corresponding to nearly 15 million preterm births annually1. Preterm birth and related complications are the leading cause of infant mortality, and those who survive face an increased risk of morbidity and mortality across the life course2. While most preterm births are spontaneous, some are...
(child’s sex, socioeconomic status), perinatal (gestational age, low birthweight, maternal age, pregnancy complications, maternal smoking during pregnancy, number of previous pregnancies, antenatal visits) and other familial factors (parental history of mental illness or court charges, and prenatal ...
We excluded datapoints with an LBW prevalence of less than 2·1%, on the basis of the lowest population-based LBW prevalence in any country from the INTERGROWTH study.28 Since the INTERGROWTH study only included healthy women at low risk of pregnancy complications, including preterm birth and ...
pregnancy complicationsObjective: To document pregnancy outcome in homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease and in age-matched controls with a normal haemoglobin genotype followed from birth for up to 45 years. Methods: A total of 100,000 consecutive non-operative deliveries screened for sickle cell ...
Every month, over 10 million people in the U.S take contraceptive pills to avoid an unplanned pregnancy and treat health concerns such as painful periods, acne, ovarian cysts and menstrual migraines. The pill’s record of safety is underscored by the low rate of complications reported over the...