Objective: To determine if simulation is more effective than conventional exposition in the improvement in nurses’ knowledge of severe preeclampsia. Methods: Crosssectional quasi-experimental study in two private clinics in Cajamarca, Peru. We compared the improvement in nurses’ knowledge of severe preeclampsia: 13 attended to a conventional exposition about severe preeclampsia (Exconv) and 16, the experimental group, had the same exposition and four simulation training sessions (Sim). We conducted a pretest in both groups and a posttest in 20participants; these were composed of multiple choice questions previously validated by experts; Spearman-Brown reliability was 0.76. The simulation training sessions were recorded in video and evaluated by an expert with a checklist adapted from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Data was processed with SPSS 20.0. We used S...

Introduction: Eclampsia (E) and HELLP syndrome (H) are two complications of preeclampsia that increase maternal morbidity and mortality. The main complication and the main cause of death of this EH / HE association is the hemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease (HCD). Objectives: To determine differences between women with EH / HE who presented HCD and those who did not. To define the types of HCD in women with EH / HE. Design: Cross-sectional comparative study. Patients: Cases of EH / HE at the Hospital Regional Docente de Cajamarca, Peru, 2015. Interventions: Patients with EH / HE were divided into two groups: those without HCD and those with HCD. SPSS 20.0 was used. The comparison of groups was done with Mann Whitney U and chi square tests. Significant differences were when p <0.05. Results: There were 23 women with EH / HE: 18 (78.3%) without HCD and 5 (21.7%) with HCD. We compared women...