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Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health Saving Mothers’ Lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer - 2003-2005 December 2007 The Seventh Report of the Confi dential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom CEMACH Mission statement Our aim is to improve the health of mothers, babies and children by carrying out confi dential enquiries on a nationwide basis and by widely disseminating our fi ndings and recommendations. Please cite this work as: Lewis, G (ed) 2007. The Confi dential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH). Saving Mothers’ Lives: reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer - 2003-2005. The Seventh Report on Confi dential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom. London: CEMACH. This work was undertaken by CEMACH. 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ISBN: 978-0-9533536-8-2 Saving Mothers’ Lives: Reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer – 2003-2005 The Seventh Report of the Confi dential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom Director and Editor Judy Shakespeare MRCP FRCGP Gwyneth Lewis MSc MRCGP FFPH FRCOG Michael de Swiet MD FRCP FRCOG Central Assessors and Authors Harry Millward-Sadler FRCPath MHSH Thomas Clutton-Brock MRCP FRCA Robin Vlies FRCSEd FRCOG Griselda Cooper OBE FRCA FRCOG Other authors and contributors James Drife MD FRCOG FRCPEd FRCSEd FCOG(SA) Naufi l Alam BSc (Hons) MSc Grace Edwards RN RM ADM Cert Ed Med PhD Valerie Beale RN RM Dip Man MSc Ann Harper OBE MD FRCPI FRCOG David Bogod FRCA LLM Diana Hulbert FRCS FFAEM Victoria Brace MRCOG William Liston Nirupa Dattani FRCOG BSc MPhil Alison Macfarlane Dawn Kernaghan BA Dip Stat C Stat FFPH MRCOG James Neilson Alison Miller MD FRCOG RN RM RDM Catherine Nelson-Piercy Jo Modder FRCP FRCOG MRCOG John McClure Judy Myles FRCA BAO FRCPsych Margaret Oates Jane Rogers DPM FRCPsych BA PhD DPSM SRN RM Gillian Penney Kate Sallah MD FRCOG MFFP MBE RN RM ADM MPH iii Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................... vi Foreword ................................................................................................................................................... vii Top ten recommendations ...................................................................................................................... viii Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ xviii Background ......................................................................................................................................... xviii Aims and objectives of the Enquiry .......................................................................................................xxi Defi nitions and methods for calculating maternal mortality rates ........................................................xxiv Key fi ndings for 2003-05 1. Summary and overall fi ndings Gwyneth Lewis ................................................................................... 1 Key fi ndings for 2003-05 ......................................................................................................................... 3 The clinical reasons why mothers died ................................................................................................... 7 Leading causes of maternal deaths: 2003-05 ......................................................................................... 9 The care the mothers received ................................................................................................................9 Underlying health status ........................................................................................................................ 22 Vulnerability ........................................................................................................................................... 29 Discussion and conclusions .................................................................................................................. 43 Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................... 45 References ............................................................................................................................................ 46 Annex 1:1. The changing face of motherhood in the UK; trends in reproductive epidemiology Alison Macfarlane ....................................................................... 48 Maternal deaths Directly related to pregnancy 2. Thrombosis and thromboembolism James Drife .............................................................................. 55 Annex 2:1. Summary of the RCOG guidelines for thromboprophylaxis during pregnancy, labour and after vaginal delivery and caesarean section. ....................................67 3. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia James Neilson ................................................................................... 72 4. Haemorrhage William Liston ................................................................................................................ 78 5. Amniotic fl uid embolism Robin Vlies ................................................................................................. 86 6. Early pregnancy deaths James Neilson ............................................................................................. 92 7. Genital tract sepsis Ann Harper .......................................................................................................... 97 8. Anaesthesia Griselda Cooper and John McClure.............................................................................. 107 iv Contents Maternal deaths Indirectly related to pregnancy 9. Cardiac disease Catherine Nelson-Piercy .........................................................................................117 10. Other Indirect deaths Michael de Swiet ........................................................................................... 131 11. Deaths from malignancy Gwyneth Lewis ........................................................................................ 145 12. Deaths from psychiatric causes Margaret Oates ........................................................................... 152 Suicide Margaret Oates ......................................................................................................................154 Substance misuse Judy Myles ........................................................................................................... 165 13. Domestic abuse Gwyneth Lewis ...................................................................................................... 173 Annex 13:1. National guidelines for England for the identifi cation and management of domestic abuse in pregnancy ............................................................................179 Deaths unrelated to pregnancy 14. Coincidental and Late deaths Gwyneth Lewis ................................................................................ 180 Key issues and lessons for specifi c health services and/or health professionals 15. Pathology Harry Millward-Sadler ..................................................................................................... 184 16. Midwifery Grace Edwards ................................................................................................................. 199 17. General Practice Judy Shakespeare ...............................................................................................