Table 2

Details of resuscitations documented in logbooks by providers of emergency care

CONDITIONS RESUSCITATED

TOTAL

DEATHS


Ante partum haemorrhage

17


Postpartum haemorrhage

20


Massive haemorrhage

2


Eclampsia

23


Severe anaemia

21


Shock

22

3


Severe sepsis including malaria

33


Road accident

7


Severe pneumonia

10


Birth asphyxia

45

3


Burns

9


Complications of labour/delivery

12

2


Major medical problems (epilepsy, diabetes, airway obstruction, severe dehydration, severe anaemia, malnutrition, apnoea, hypoglycaemia, heart failure, hypertension, liver disease, gas poisoning)

17

3


Major trauma (gunshot, stabbing, fracture, head injury)

9

1


Severe asthma

10


Unknown

36

1


TOTAL

293

13


Cole-Ceesay et al. Reproductive Health 2010 7:21   doi:10.1186/1742-4755-7-21

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