TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage A1 - Yeomans, Edward R. A1 - Hoffman, Barbara L. A1 - Gilstrap III, Larry C. A1 - Cunningham, F. Gary PY - 2017 T2 - Cunningham and Gilstrap's Operative Obstetrics, 3e AB - In 1986, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiated a program of national surveillance of pregnancy-related deaths. It is serially updated and can be accessed at: www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pmss.html. Using this database, Creanga and colleagues (2015) reported an increase in the maternal mortality rate from 7.2 per 100,000 in 1987 to 17.8 per 100,000 in 2009. It is also clear from this report that hemorrhage remains a significant cause of pregnancy-related deaths, accounting for 11.4 percent of such deaths from 2006 to 2010. This is despite widespread recognition of the consequences of obstetric hemorrhage and the availability of modern blood-banking techniques. Notably, the United States is one of the few countries worldwide that has not reported a decline in maternal mortality rates but instead has shown a significant rise. One worrisome trend was the marked racial disparity in pregnancy-related mortality rates. In data from 2006 to 2010, white women suffered 12 deaths per 100,000 births, whereas the rate for black gravidas was 36.4 deaths per 100,000 births (Creanga, 2015). Also disturbing is that approximately 90 percent of maternal hemorrhage-related deaths have been considered potentially preventable (Berg, 2005; D'Alton, 2014). SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/20 UR - obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138215709 ER -