BACKGROUND Perinatal regionalization is a system of maternal and neonatal risk-appropriate health care delivery in which resources are ideally allocated for mothers and newborns during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum, in order to deliver appropriate care. Typically, perinatal risk-appropriate care is provided in-person, but with the advancement of technologies, the opportunity to ...

We conducted a retrospective analysis of perinatal mortality at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 1999-2003 in order to categorise/classify perinatal deaths as well as to identify key factors in perinatal care that could be improved. Data were retrieved from the MNH obstetric database and causes of early neonatal deaths were traced from the neonatal ward register. The s...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the maternal and perinatal morbidity associated with cesarean delivery involving the upper uterine segment compared with that of low transverse cesarean delivery. METHODS A 19-year review of a perinatal database and the relevant charts was used to determine the maternal and perinatal morbidity associated with low transverse cesarean, classic cesarean, and inverted "T" ce...

Introduction: Perinatal mortality rate (PMR) is the most sensitive index of the health status of women and quality of maternal and child health services. Over 130 million babies are born every year, large numbers of children die soon after birth, many of them in the first 4 weeks of life (neonatal deaths) and most of them in the first week (early neonatal deaths). Objective: The objective of th...

HIGHLIGHTS Palliative care in terminally ill patients has only been effective recently Brazil. Fetuses or neonates unable to curecare received attention 2017. Brazilian women´s characteristics directly influencing perinatal palliative care.

BACKGROUND Perinatal mortality is an important indicator of obstetric and newborn care services. Although the vast majority of global perinatal mortality is estimated to occur in developing countries, there is a critical paucity of reliable data at the local level to inform health policy, plan health care services, and monitor their impact. This paper explores the utility of information from vi...