The term severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is used to collectively describe a number of life-threatening and debilitating conditions that occasionally occur during pregnancy and childbirth.
These conditions include:
- Severe preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome, and eclampsia
- Severe hemorrhage
- Maternal ICU admission
- Surgical complications
- Hysterectomy
- Sepsis
- Embolism, shock, and disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Assisted ventilation
- Cardiac conditions
- Acute renal failure
- Severe uterine rupture
- Cerebrovascular events
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