Extremely severe maternal morbidity is the condition used to refer to any woman who has a serious complication during pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium that puts her life at risk and requires immediate attention in order to avoid death. An information search was carried out in the Pubmed, Scopus, Dialnet and Lilacs databases. A search strategy was applied using the terms: perinatal care, postpartum hemorrhage, Near miss, maternal mortality. Of the 33 articles initially obtained, 30 met the inclusion criteria. Objective: To describe aspects related to extremely severe maternal morbidity that allow establishing health actions aimed at reducing maternal-perinatal complications and consequently maternal mortality.Postpartum hemorrhage and hypertensive disease of pregnancy continue to be the main causes of extremely severe maternal morbidity today, which varies according to the criteria...

Extremely severe maternal morbidity is the condition used to refer to any woman who has a serious complication during pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium that puts her life at risk and requires immediate attention in order to avoid death. An information search was carried out in the Pubmed, Scopus, Dialnet and Lilacs databases. A search strategy was applied using the terms: perinatal care, postpartum hemorrhage, Near miss, maternal mortality. Of the 33 articles initially obtained, 30 met the inclusion criteria. Objective: To describe aspects related to extremely severe maternal morbidity that allow establishing health actions aimed at reducing maternal-perinatal complications and consequently maternal mortality.Postpartum hemorrhage and hypertensive disease of pregnancy continue to be the main causes of extremely severe maternal morbidity today, which varies according to the criteria...