Perinatal mortality in Southland

Insull, B.J.; MacLean, N.E.; Blanchette, G.

New Zealand Medical Journal 91(652): 40-42

1980


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-8446
PMID: 6929435
Document Number: 162475
A review of Southland's perinatal mortality was undertaken from 1971 to 1977 and included 237 deaths with a post mortem rate of 90 percent. During this period, the perinatal mortality rate fell to below the national average. Prematurity remains the most important single factor. Seventy-four percent of confinements are attended solely by general practitioner obstetricians. Fetal monitoring of high risk pregnancies in labour markedly reduces the intrapartum death rate of mature babies.

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