Open AccessSevere Puerperal Sepsis-A Simmering Menace
Author(s) -
Sheeba Marwah
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2017/23710.9815
Subject(s) - medicine , maternal death , miscarriage , sepsis , obstetrics , abdominal pain , pregnancy , pediatrics , surgery , population , environmental health , biology , genetics
Even decades after the development of effective low-cost antibiotics, sepsis persists as the foremost cause of preventable maternal death worldwide. In developing countries like India, where the paramount impediment to intervention is poverty, maternal mortality due to sepsis is a continuing representation of maternal health inequality.