A feasible, acceptable and effective way to teach health care workers in low- and middle-income countries a method to manage acutely ill obstetric women. Issue 1 (January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McCarthy, Rose; Byrne-Davis, Lucie; Hart, Jo; Yuill, Gordon; Slattery, Helen; Jackson, Matthew; Byrne, Gerard J.
• Is Part Of: Midwifery. Volume 31:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 19
• Page End: 24
• Publication Date: 2015-01
• Subjects: Midwifery -- Periodicals; Midwifery -- Periodicals; Sages-femmes -- Périodiques; Midwifery; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 618.2005
• DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2014.04.009
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0266-6138

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author" id="ab0005"> <title id="sect0005">Abstract</title> <sec> <p id="sp0055">Maternal mortality is unacceptably high in Sub Saharan Africa, which accounts for 56% of all maternal deaths (<xref id="cr0135" rid="bib16">WHO, 2012</xref>). Most maternal deaths are avoidable but with prompt recognition and timely intervention it is not inevitable that acute or critical maternal illness deteriorates to fatality (<xref id="cr0140" rid="bib5">Firth and Ttendo, 2012</xref>). This paper discusses a project to provide multidisciplinary training in Maternal-Acute Illness Management (M-AIM) in a low resource setting in order to actively address the third delay to women accessing emergency obstetric care: prompt receipt of effective care on reaching a medical facility.</p> </sec> </abstract>