Abstract

AMADOR DE VARONA, Caridad Irene; VENTURA BALMASEDA, Zailik; ARENCIBIA RIFA, Kathiuska  and  AVILA ROSALES, Daniel. Behavior of the post-term pregnancy in our environment. AMC [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.2. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: The post-term pregnancy throughout the years has been reason of anguish and family concern. Objective: To determine how the pregnancy post-term behaved in our environment. Method: A prospective descriptive and lineal study was performed in the Provincial Educational Gynecobstetric Hospital "Ana Betancourt de Mora" of Camagüey, from January to December 2006. The universe and the sample were constituted by 100 pregnancy women that had this event in the 42 weeks of pregnancy and more. Results: The age group that prevailed was the one of 19 and 24 years, with a total of 35 for 3,5% of the universe, 6,6% didn't have previous experience of childbirth. The most frequent way of ending of pregnancy was the induced one with 86, (86%), and the childbirth type, the dystocic with 53 for 53%. The fluid characteristic that prevailed was the meconial. Conclusions: The moderate respiratory depression in the neonate was the main cause of morbility found, followed by BALAM. While in mothers the most frequent associated disease to pregnancy was the moderate ferripriva anemia.

Keywords : Prolonged pregnancy [epidemiology].

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