Saving Mothers' Lives: Reviewing Maternal Deaths to Make Motherhood Safer 2006-2008

CMACE - Saving mothers lives 2006-8
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Authors/editors: CMACE and Gwyneth Lewis
ISBN: 9780955805561
Page count: 203
Publisher: CMACE
Publication year: 2011

This is one of the most important reports published during the unbroken, nearly 60-year history of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths. It shows for the first time in many years, a small but very welcome decline in the overall maternal mortality as well as larger reductions in deaths from some clinical causes. It is difficult to ignore the apparent relationship between the significant decline in deaths from pulmonary embolism, and to a lesser degree from other causes except from sepsis, and the publication and implementation of clinical guidelines which have been recommended in previous Enquiry reports.

This report is recommended to all health-service commissioners and professionals as well as to those with a general interest in pregnancy and birth. Learning and acting on the important messages contained  within each chapter will lead to continuing improvements in the prevention and management of life-threatening complications of pregnancy.

Please note that this edition has been published as a supplement to the March edition of BJOG. Subscribers to BJOG can access a free online version here but will not receive a printed copy  of this report.

Table of contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreward

Top ten recommendations

Back to Basics Margaret Oates, Ann Harper, Judy Shakespeare and Catherine Nelson-Piercy

Aims, objectives and definitions used in this report Gwyneth Lewis

Key Findings for 2006-2008

  1. The women who died 2006-2008 Gwyneth Lewis

Maternal deaths Directly related to pregnancy

  1. Thrombosis and thromboembolism James Drife
  2. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia James Neilson
  3. Haemorrhage Jane Norman
  4. Amniotic fluid embolism Andrew Dawson
  5. Deaths in early pregnancy Colm O'Herlihy
  6. Sepsis Ann Harper

Annex 7.1: A possible future approach to case definitions Sebastian Lucas

  1. Anaesthesia John McClure and Griselda Cooper

Maternal deaths Indirectly related to pregnancy

  1. Cardiac disease Catherine Nelson-Piercy

Annex 9.1 Pathological overview of cardiac deaths including sudden adult/arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) Sebastian Lucas

  1. Other Indirect deaths Michael de Swiet, Catherine Williamson and Gwyneth Lewis
  2. Deaths form psychiatric cause Margaret Oates and Roch Cantwell

Deaths apparently unrelated to pregnancy

  1. Deaths apparently unrelated to pregnancy from Coincidental and Late causes including domestic abuse Gwyneth Lewis

Annex 12.1 Domestic abuse

Key Issues and lessons for specific health service practice, organisation and/or health professionals

  1. Midwifery Debbie Garrod, Valerie Beale and Jane Rogers
  2. General Practice Judy Shakespeare
  3. Emergency Medicine Diane Hulbert
  4. Critical Care Tome Clutton-Brock
  5. Pathology overview Sebastian Lucas and Harry Millward Sadler

17.1 The main clinico-pathologies encountered at autopsy in maternal death and specific pathological scenarios (Adapted from Royal College of Pathologists: Guidelines on Autopsy Practice. Scenario 5: Maternal Death. May 2010.)

 

Appendix 1: The method of Enquiry

Appendix 2A: Summary of United Kingdom Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) Report on near miss studies

Appendix 2B: Summary of Scottish Confidential Audit of Severe Maternal Morbidity Report 2008

Appendix 3: Contributors to the Maternal Death Enquiry for triennium 2006-08 and CMACE personnel

Appendix 4: CMACE Governance

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