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Extremely severe maternal morbidity and mortality, quality indicators of obstetric care

Abstract:

Maternal mortality is an indicator that allows for the evaluation of the development of a country. Particular attention should be given to extremely serious maternal mortality as an alternative to reduce the number of women who die during the reproductive stage. This study exposes the findings of the theoretical construction stage of a research on quality indicators in obstetric care in hospitals «Dr. Teodoro Maldonado Carbo «and» Enrique C. Sotomayor «of Guayaquil, Ecuador. An epistemic update was made through the hermeneutics and bibliographical revision that allowed the collation and analysis of an abundant and varied authoritative scientific literature, with the purpose of analyzing and divulging such a valuable subject in order to favor the reduction of maternal mortality. The main results reveal the most frequent predictors of extremely serious maternal morbidity, such as age over 34 years, social exclusion and previous history of postpartum hemorrhage, among a history of complications. Another aspect identified was the timely diagnosis of extremely serious maternal mortality and the rapid admission of women to intensive care units, for which their own criteria must be taken into account.