Near miss events frequency and most common causes

Aim: to find the frequency of near miss events and their most common causes in patients received in the emergency of our hospital design: a retrospective study of the obstetric patients hospital records was carried out to summarize the obstetric and perinatal events from 1st july 2014 to 31st december 2014,in the gynae and obstetric unit 1 of lahore general hospital. near miss events were identified according to who near miss guide conclusion criteria 2009. results: out of total 2371 live births 124 near miss events occurred among which 7 expired. thus near miss ratio (nmr) and maternal mortality ratio (mmr) of our hospital is 52.2/1000 live births and 295/100000 live births respectively. thus maternal mortality to near miss ratio is 1:17.7. haemorrhage was found to be the most common cause. severe preeclampsia and medical disorder were the next common causes. conclusion: this study shows that for every 17 women who survived life threatening complication 1 died. so it is very essential to identify and give timely good management to near miss cases to decrease mortality rate.