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Maternal mortality: CEMD definitions and key findings

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Maternal death is death during pregnancy or within 42 days of termination from a cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management, excluding accidental or incidental causes.
Late maternal death occurs between 42 days and 1 year after pregnancy from direct or indirect causes.
Coincidental death is from an unrelated cause occurring during pregnancy or the puerperium.
A maternity is a pregnancy reaching 24 weeks or beyond, or resulting in a live birth before 24 weeks.
Maternal mortality rate is the number of direct plus indirect deaths per 100,000 maternities.
Direct deaths result from obstetric complications, interventions, omissions, incorrect treatment or resulting chains of events.
Indirect deaths result from pre-existing or newly developed disease not due to direct obstetric causes but aggravated by the physiological effects of pregnancy.
Maternal mortality was 10 per 100,000 women in 2010-12 compared with 11 per 100,000 women in 2006-08.
Two-thirds of women died from indirect causes and almost three-quarters of all women who died had pre-existing medical and mental complications.
For sepsis, key priorities are early diagnosis, rapid antibiotics and review by senior doctors and midwives.

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Obstetrics and gynaecology→ Basic→ Clinical Management→ Clinical Practice→ Pregnancy related→ Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths→ Maternal mortality

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