- Maternal mortality
- Death during pregnancy or within 42 days of pregnancy
- Classification
- Direct
- Most anaesthetic direct deaths are related to GA
- Complication of pregnancy or medical management
- Indirect
- Now commoner than direct deaths
- Due to pre-existing conditions
- Fortuitous
- Risk factors
- Individual factors
- Obesity
- Extremes of maternal age
- Increasing parity
- Obesity
- Obstetric factors
- Operative delivery
- Multiple pregnancy
- IVF pregnancy
- Social factors
- Social exclusion
- Non-attendance antenatally
- Ethnic minorities
- Travelling community
- Domestic violence
- CEACCP
Link:ceaccp.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/1/8.full.pdf