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Analysis of 20,119 Deliveries in Dhaka Medical College Hospital
Author(s) -
Begum Kohinoor
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
asia‐oceania journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 0389-2328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.1993.tb00339.x
Subject(s) - medicine
Data of 20,119 deliveries in Dhaka Medical College Hospital are presented. Dhaka Medical College Hospital is the chief referral hospital in Dhaka city. The 15% of patient were 18 years of age or below and 18% were above 35 years of age or above. The 48.22% were primaegravida and 51.78% were multigravida, of these 28% were grandmultigravida. The 89% had no previous antenatal checkup. The 92.72% had cephalic presentation, 65.52% had normal vaginal delivery, 21.07% had caesarean section, 11.18% had forceps delivery. Perinatal mortality during hospital stay was 143/1,000 deliveries, maternal mortality 2,510/100,000, mainly due to eclampsia. Complications during delivery were mainly in the form of ruptured uterus (1.10%), P.P.H. (1.06%), and retained placenta (3.88%).