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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain | Volume 4 Number 1 | 2004
© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004

Maternal mortality: a useful tool?

Elizabeth Clarke, FRCA, Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia
Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds

Gordon Lyons, MD FRCA, Consultant in Obstetric Anaesthesia
St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF
Tel: 0113 206 5371, Fax: 0113 244 4538, E-mail: glyons{at}blocked.ac.uk (for correspondence)

Each year, as many as 600,000 women die from complications of pregnancy or childbirth, more than one death per minute. All but 2% of these deaths occur in the developing world. In Sierra Leone, a woman has a 1 in 6 chance of dying from a pregnancy-related illness during her child-bearing years. This compares with 1 in 4,600 in the UK.

Women in the developing world are more likely to be deficient in money, basic education, good housing and efficient sanitation. They have limited access to, and poor quality of, maternal health services and are often unable to make reasonable choices regarding family planning and health during pregnancy.


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