Recommendations for saving mothers' lives in Japan: Report from the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee (2010-2014)

Junichi Hasegawa; Tomoaki Ikeda; Akihiko Sekizawa; Hiroaki Tanaka; Masamitsu Nakamura; Shinji Katsuragi; Kazuhiro Osato; Kayo Tanaka; Takeshi Murakoshi; Masahiko Nakata; Isamu Ishiwata; Maternal Death Exploratory Committee in Japan and the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

doi:10.1111/jog.13136

Recommendations for saving mothers' lives in Japan: Report from the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee (2010-2014)

J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2016 Dec;42(12):1637-1643. doi: 10.1111/jog.13136. Epub 2016 Oct 8.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mie University School of Medicine, Mie, Japan.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
⁵ Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal and Perinatal Care Center, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan.
⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ Ishiwata Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Ibaraki, Japan.

PMID: 27718278
DOI: 10.1111/jog.13136

Abstract

To make recommendations for saving mothers' lives, issues related to maternal deaths including diseases, causes, treatments, and hospital and regional systems are analyzed by the Maternal Death Exploratory Committee in Japan. In this report, we present ten clinical important recommendations based on the analysis of maternal deaths between 2010 and 2014 in Japan.

Keywords: blood transfusion; emergency medicine; maternal death; maternal mortality rate; postpartum hemorrhage.

MeSH terms

Cause of Death
Critical Care
Female
Humans
Japan / epidemiology
Maternal Health Services*
Maternal Mortality*
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications / mortality
Pregnancy Complications / prevention & control*