Medisur (Jul 2023)
The maternal morbidity behavior during the puerperium. Cienfuegos, 2020
Abstract
Foundation: during the puerperium there are causes of maternal complications that compromise the woman’s life, a stage that requires continuous monitoring and successful action by health professionals. It is important in the world and in Cuba to monitor the maternal deaths causes’ behavior and the mater-nal patients morbidity in critical condition, for the application of organizational, control and action stra-tegies to improve this indicator.Objective: to characterize the maternal morbidity behavior during the puerperium.Methods: descriptive, cross-sectional study on the morbidity of puerperal women at the Cienfuegos Provincial Hospital, during the year 2020. The universe was composed of 3563 births that occurred. A form for data collection was developed. The analyzed variables were: maternal age, type of delivery, birth weight, gestational age, state of the newborn at birth, and severe and non-serious maternal morbi-dity.Results: there was women predominance between 20 and 34 years of age (76%); 57.9% had eutocic delivery. The postpartum women with maternal morbidity due to severe sepsis were 79 women (2.2%) and with non-serious morbidity 397 women (11.1%). Conclusions: severe sepsis, preeclampsia-eclampsia, and postpartum hemorrhage are the entities that were mostly observed in severe maternal morbidity; those with non-serious morbidity had low birth weight newborns and postpartum anemia.
