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Confidential Enquiry into Maternal
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Saving Mothers’ Lives: Reviewing
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Contents Maternal deaths Indirectly
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Foreword Having a baby is a joyous
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The ‘top ten’ key recommendatio
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Migrant women 4. All pregnant mothe
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Clinical skills 7. Maternity servic
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Early warning scoring system 9. The
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References 1 Redshaw M, Rowe R, Hoc
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Working together to save mothers’
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Severe maternal morbidity, “near
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At a national level In every countr
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Table 1 Defi nitions of maternal de
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For the past nine years, ONS have b
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Chapter 1 Which mothers died, and w
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Key fi ndings for 2003-05 Maternal
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Figure 1.1: Overall maternal mortal
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Coincidental deaths The deaths of 5
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Leading causes of maternal deaths:
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Table 1.5 Maternal deaths by gestat
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Table 1.7 Number of maternal deaths
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of note is that every women who die
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Table 1.11 Numbers and percentage o
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These messages are repeated in many
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Doctors may need specifi c training
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Table 1.13 Total number of Direct a
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Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (
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The obese women who died From the n
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Pre-pregnancy counselling and weigh
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Table 1.19 Direct and Indirect mate
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double the number of cases in the l
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was ill and he should take her to a
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Table 1.22 Characteristics of the a
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Table 1.24 Characteristics of the a
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Table 1.26 Characteristics of the a
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Most staff reported learning clinic
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exception. The health service has a
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17 Shah A, Sands J, Kenny L. Matern
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Country of birth and migration A fa
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Table A1.4 Direct and Indirect deat
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Body mass index varies with age, be
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2 Thrombosis and thromboembolism Ja
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Pulmonary embolism Of the 33 women
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Family history In two deaths there
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vigilance and take symptoms serious
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Deaths after caesarean section Seve
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of pregnancy, seven had identifi ab
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Annex 2.1 Summary of the key recomm
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The grades of recommendations (B or
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High risk patients Patients assesse
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Table 3.2 Numbers of deaths from pr
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publication from the United States
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References 1 Knight M, Kurinczuk JJ
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obstetricians and anaesthetists rou
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Detailed guidelines for the managem
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acute bleeding situation although i
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References 1 Brace V, Penney G, Hal
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Table 5.1 Direct deaths attributed
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of over ten litres. Despite a hyste
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References 1 Clark SL, Pavlova Z, G
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The women who died The ages of the
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A woman who had not been long in th
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7 Genital tract sepsis Ann Harper G
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Sepsis in early pregnancy Six women
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Box 7.3 Learning points: Sepsis in
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Risk factors for, and the identifi
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Box 7.7 Features of septicaemic sho
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8 Anaesthesia Griselda Cooper and J
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The third case also highlights the
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A woman suffered a concealed haemor
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Sepsis Poor anaesthetic or resuscit
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What did you learn from this case a
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9 Cardiac disease Catherine Nelson-
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Table 9.2 Causes of maternal death
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an estimated incidence of 1.1 per 1
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Quality of care Care was considered
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y a doctor, with a systolic blood p
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Box 9.3 Learning points: peripartum
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Infectious endocarditis Two women d
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10 Other Indirect deaths Michael de
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Table 10.1 Causes of Other Indirect
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Fifty-eight of the eighty-seven wom
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Previous Reports have emphasised th
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Aspergillosis usually occurs in imm
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Liver disease There were four mater
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Diseases of the circulatory system
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11 Cancer and other tumours Gwyneth
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her delivery, but her case should h
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Severe abdominal and back pain, sci
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References 1 Drife, J O. The contri
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Psychiatric deaths: Specifi c recom
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cut off point for maternal deaths,
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Report, 26 deaths from suicide were
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CEMACH Regional Managers East of En
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Regional Assessors in Pathology Eas
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