BACKGROUND Constant decline in maternal mortality ratio has given rise to the need of a new indicator. This search has motivated investigation of severe maternal morbidity-"maternal near-miss" (MNM) event. World Health Organization (WHO) defines MNM as "a woman who, being close to death, survives a complication that occurred during pregnancy, delivery or up to 42 days after the end of her pregn...

a MRC Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Research Unit, University of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. b Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. c Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England. d Office for National Statistics, London, England. Correspondence to João Paulo Souza (e-mail: souzaj@...

This paper describes a method of giving advice for near-miss programs using a case-based reasoning approach in programming education. A near-miss program is a program that does not run properly but is rather close to correct programs. Two case-based methods of generating advice sentences are proposed; one is based on similarity to past advice cases and the other is based on the difference from ...

Automated control and safety systems that help a plant return to normal operating conditions when abnormal events occur are prevalent in modern chemical plants. The databases associated with these systems contain a wealth of information about near-miss occurrences that, if subjected to frequent statistical analysis, can provide metrics to predict and ideally prevent accidents. Such analysis is ...

BACKGROUND To identify all the records within the Brazilian Hospital Information System (HIS) that contained information suggestive of severe maternal morbidity (near miss); to describe the diagnoses and procedures used; to identify variables associated with maternal death. METHODS A descriptive population study with data from the HIS and Mortality Information System (MIS) files of records of...

A 19 day old infant was successfully resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation. The 12 lead ECG was normal, with a normal QT interval, and remains so over three years follow up. DNA analysis revealed a missense mutation (R1193Q) in the SCN5A gene, previously linked with familial sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome, also known as Brugada syndrome.

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of fetal and neonatal deaths among patients with maternal near miss and the factors associated with this fatal outcome. METHODS The authors conducted a descriptive, cross-sectional, analyzing medical records of patients admitted to the ICU of a tertiary obstetric Recife (Brazil), between January 2007 and December 2010, who had at least one criterion of ne...

OBJECTIVE Maternal near-miss defines a narrow category of morbidity encompassing potentially life-threatening episodes. The purpose of this study was to detect near-miss instances among women admitted to intensive care units or coronary units, analyze associated causes, and compute absolute and specific maternal morbidity rates in six Italian regions. DESIGN Observational retrospective study....

BACKGROUND Severe maternal conditions have increasingly been used as alternative measurements of the quality of maternal care and as alternative strategies to reduce maternal mortality. We aimed to study severe maternal morbidity and maternal near miss among women in two tertiary hospitals in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. METHODS A cross-sectional study with record review was conducted in 2...

LITTLE ATTENTION HAS BEEN GIVEN TO SLEEPY NEARMISS DRIVING ACCIDENTS UP TO NOW DESPITE THEIR LIKELY RELATIONSHIP WITH ACTUAL DRIVING accidents. Although there have been investigations that included near-miss accidents and/or sleepy near-misses, these data were limited and not used to predict a sleepy accident.1-5 In fact, the focus of these and the following papers were mostly on sleep disorder...