What We Can Do About Maternal Mortality—And How to Do It Quickly. Issue 4 (April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mann, Susan; Hollier, Lisa M.; McKay, Kimberlee; Brown, Haywood
• Is Part Of: Obstetrical & gynecological survey. Volume 75:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 217
• Page End: 218
• Publication Date: 2020-04
• Subjects: Obstetrics -- Periodicals; Gynecology -- Periodicals; Generative organs, Female -- Surgery -- Periodicals; 618
• DOI: 10.1097/01.ogx.0000659584.47546.72
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0029-7828

Abstract

Abstract : (Abstracted from N Engl J Med 2018;379(18):1689–1691) Women in the United States are more likely to die from childbirth- or pregnancy-related causes than women in any other high-income country, with black women dying at a rate 3 to 4 times that of white women. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identifies 3 types of complications as the most common potentially preventable causes of pregnancy-related death: postpartum hemorrhage, severe hypertension, and venous thromboembolism.