While this obstetric procedure turns out to be the solution to the difficult problems of labor, its increase accelerated as in other centers, has become an issue of current concern, which deserves examination, evaluation and analysis, able to determine to what extent the increase turns out to be the correct procedure. It is known that in welfare centers like ours, resources for health care are always insufficient, forcing us to adopt behaviors aimed at rationalization, but without losing sight of the quality and efficiency that they must pay.

A revision of concepts is presented that it has more than enough adolescents' pregnancy, considered as paradigms some of those which that deserve to be revised.The maternal deaths are exposed in adolescents in one period understood among 1986 at 2002, in this lapse 30 maternal deaths of adolescents took place that he/ she makes an alive born gross rate of 7.69/0000 and one specifies of 40.92/0000 born alive.The Direct cause of maternal death in adolescents in this revision is the Septic Abortion with 33.34%, the infections with 16.66%, you Hemorrhage with 13.34% and the Toxemia with 6.66%.The main cause insinuation of maternal death in this group constitutes it the lung tuberculosis with 10.00%.The maternal deaths in adolescents are bigger as the chronological age advances (16 to 19 years).The hospital stay, where the maternal death took place in these adolescents he/she went among 0 o'c...

Perinatal deaths that did take place at the Institute Materno Perinatal from jannuary 1999 to October 2000, were studied. During this time 37,852 babies wereborn, of wich 36,995 were liveborns, 395 stillborns and 462 died during the first seven days of life.In order to study Perintal mortality I related to mothers age, these were groupedos: Yamger than 19, 20 to 25, 26 to 30, 31 to 36 and older than 36 years of age.Perinatal mortality rate vas 22.64; too high for western world levels but lower than the one registered at national level. Perinatal mortality rate in adolescents is lower than the one found in other age groups. The rate for numbers of liveborns was: 18.70 per 1000 in the 26 to 30 age group, 37.28 in the 31 to 36 age group, and 38.38 for women older than 36 years of age these data shows that perinatal mortality I, increased withage of the mother.Perinatal mortality I related t...

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