Clinical Profile of antenatal primigravidas of more than 37 weeks gestation admitted at a Tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Factors that increase maternal death can be direct or indirect. Generally, there is a distinction between a direct maternal death that is the result of a complication of the pregnancy, delivery, or management of the two, and an indirect maternal death; that is a pregnancy-related death in a patient with a preexisting or newly developed health problem unrelated to pregnancy. All antenatal primigravidas of >37 weeks gestation with a singleton pregnancy in vertex presentation admitted in the Labor room of Medical College Hospital were eligible for inclusion in the study. 89(66%) of the gravid women were between 38-39 weeks of gestation and the remaining subjects, 46(34%) were in the 39-40 weeks of gestation. A little more than half 82, (61%) of the gravid women were induced and the remaining 53 (39%) progressed spontaneously.