The puerperium
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review
- Vol. 1 (01) , 43-60
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0965539500000073
Abstract
The puerperium is a time of substantial maternal risk. Within recent years, crude maternal mortality rates of 8.9/100,000 total births have been reported from England and Wales and of 6.6/100,000 from Sweden. Maternal deaths are considerably more likely to follow delivery than to precede it (Table 1). The risks associated with caesarean section are particularly noteworthy: death rates have been reported to be as much as 12 times greater than those following vaginal delivery.Keywords
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