Pregnancy-induced hypertension is a disorder of unknown etiology unique to pregnant women. Classic clinical manifestations include hypertension, proteinuria, and edema. Early recognition and proper management of this disease may serve to avoid serious maternal complications. Ultimate maternal treatment depends on delivery of the fetus and placenta. Advanced stages of this disease result in mult...

OBJECTIVE to develop and validate a questionnaire on severe maternal morbidity and to evaluate the maternal recall of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. DESIGN validity of a questionnaire as diagnostic instrument. SETTING a third level referral maternity in Campinas, Brazil. POPULATION 386 survivors of severe maternal complications and 123 women that delivered without majo...

Maternal complications (Table 2) are primarily in the form of systemic reactions from inadvertent intravascular injections in spite of attempted aspiration. In order to avoid maternal complications, it is recommended to inject the anesthestic directly under the vaginal epidermis; e.g., not to insert the tipe of the cannula deeper than 2-3 mm. This decreases the possiblity of an injection into a...

Abstract Objectives: to describe the profile of Brazilian Advanced Maternal Age (AMA) women (> 35 years) according parity, as well analyze role parity in relationship between AMA and mode delivery. Methods: this is a cross-sectional study, based on “Nascer no Brasil” (Born Brazil) survey. The data were collected 2011/2012. chi-square test was performed verify association maternal, prenatal d...