Mortalidad materna en unidades críticas

Abstract

Maternal mortality is a problem that affects the whole world, approximately 830 women die every day worldwide from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, the developing countries being the most affected, despite the strategies employed by health agencies have not been able to eradicate this problem. Objective: To determine the epidemiological characteristics associated with maternal mortality in Critical Units. Methodology: Descriptive/ qualitative study, for the search or 10 databases: Scielo, Google academic, SCOPUS, PubMed, Web of science, LILACS, ProQuest, WHO, MSP, PAHO, through the health descriptors Mesh and Decs together with the Boolean (AND-OR), under the inclusion criteria: articles published from 2015 to the present and those who didn’t comply were excluded. Results: Finally, 22 articles were obtained and 7 information documents from the health pages (MSP, WHO, PAHO). Conclusion: Maternal death in Critical care Units is minimal in relation to non-ICU areas, and the main causes were hypertensive disorders, followed by post-partum hemorrhaged and sepsis, finally the region that was most affected was in the coastal zone of Ecuador.