Definition of maternal death

Question 1

Maternal death definition

Answer 1

Death of a women while pregnant or within 42 days of the end of the pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management, but not from accidental or incidental causes

Question 2

Direct maternal death defintion

Answer 2

Deaths resulting from obstetric complications of the pregnant state (pregnancy, labour and puerperium), from interventions, omissions, incorrect treatment or from a chain of events resulting from any of the above

Question 3

Indirect maternal death definition

Answer 3

Deaths resulting from previous existing disease, or disease that developed during pregnancy and which was not the result of direct obstetric causes, but which was aggravated by the physiological effects of pregnancy

Question 4

Late maternal death definition

Answer 4

Deaths occurring between 42 days and 1 year after the end of pregnancy that are the result of Direct or Indirect maternal causes

Question 5

Coincidental death definition

Answer 5

Deaths from unrelated causes which happen to occur in pregnancy or the puerperium