UID:
almafu_9961041443002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-21878-6
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1-009-21880-8
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1-009-21882-4
Inhalt:
This title explores how the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths reduced the maternal mortality rate and improved safety in pregnancy in Britain. Chapters cover how leading causes of maternal death were identified and resolved, from sepsis to safe abortions and more recently, social and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
Anmerkung:
Also issued in print: 2023.
,
Historical background -- The first steps : 1900- -- How the Confidential Enquiries evolved -- The missing chapter? Prolonged labour and obstetric trauma -- How the change began : the story of sepsis -- Haemorrhage then and now / James Neilson -- Hypertension : enquiries, trials and recommendations James Neilson -- The story of abortion -- Challenging tradition : the story of embolism -- Pregnancy and illness : Indirect deaths -- Maternal death due to anaesthesia / Griselda Cooper -- Psychiatric illness / Roch Cantwell -- The mothers who died : the social deteminants of maternal deaths / Gwyneth Lewis -- The legacy in the UK : the concept of "near miss" and the need to keep saving lives / Marian Knight -- International maternal health : global action / Gwyneth Lewis -- International action : personal views / Robert Pattinson, Vakkaram Paily and Elliott Main.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781009218832
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/9781009218825
