Complicaciones maternas en primigestas adolescentes y no adolescentes, Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, periodo 2019

Abstract

Background: maternal complications during pregnancy occur frequently, even when most of these disorders can be prevented, so it is important to recognize the most common complications to provide adequate treatment and reduce maternal mortality. Objective: to determine the frequency of maternal complications in teenage and non-adolescent primigests of the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital, during the 2019 period. Methodology: observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. 300 pregnant women who met the inclusion criteria participated, the information was collected through surveys and clinical records. For the statistical analysis, the SPSS version 15 program is found. The results are selected using custom tables, for the qualitative variables the frequencies and percentages and for the quantitative means and standard deviations. Results: the general prevalence of maternal complications was 57%, of which 55.6% occurred in adults and 44.4% in adolescents. The frequency of caesarean sections was 32% in adults versus 27.3% in adolescents. Both anemia and postpartum hemorrhage were more frequent complications in the group of adolescents with 16.7% and 11.3% respectively; in adults the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy with 20.7% and perineal tear with 14.7% were presented in a higher percentage. Conclusions: the prevalence of maternal complications was high, evidencing more frequently in adult pregnant women.