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Perinatal Deaths

The guidelines recommend management of common obstetric conditions at primary and referral level, based on local experience and evidence-based practice. They are not intended as strict protocols nor as standard operating procedures, but rather as a guide to safe effective management of common obstetric problems. The guidelines should be most useful to interns, medical officers and registrars.

These include all stillbirths, & neonatal deaths in the first 7 days after birth, of babies weighing 500 g or more.

Details of all perinatal deaths should be collected daily & entered on the death forms. Stillbirths are identified in the labour ward register & neonatal deaths are found in the registers of the neonatal unit
This data should be entered into the Perinatal Problems Identification Programme (PPIP) software, for analysis, reference & presentation