Anaesthesia-related maternal mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: The risk factors contributing to maternal mortality from anaesthesia in low-income and middle-income countries and the burden of the problem have not been comprehensively studied up to now. We aimed to obtain precise estimates of anaesthesia-attributed deaths in pregnant women exposed to...

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Main Authors: Soha Sobhy, MBBS, Prof. Javier Zamora, PhD, Kuhan Dharmarajah, MRCOG, David Arroyo-Manzano, MSc, Matthew Wilson, MD, Ramesan Navaratnarajah, MRCOG, Prof. Arri Coomarasamy, MD, Prof. Khalid S Khan, MSc, Prof. Shakila Thangaratinam, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-05-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X16300031