Abstract
This review describes the changes in the causes of maternal deaths in a major referral hospital over a span of 55 years. There has been a significant decline in direct maternal deaths from infection, hemorrhage, and toxemia. Continued vigilance is needed since 58% of direct obstetric deaths in our hospital during the last 30 years were considered to have been preventable. Heart disease and nonobstetric infection as indirect causes of maternal deaths have decreased also. Greater effort is necessary to identify those patients with conditions that predispose to indirect deaths and to provide appropriate contraception, sterilization, early pregnancy termination, or optimal multidisciplinary care in a referral hospital.
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