Introduction:

Maternal mortality has been used as an indicator of the socioeconomic development of a country and the quality of medical services in Public Health. Extremely severe maternal morbidity (near miss) is the necessary scenario to understand the preventable conditions and facts that determine maternal death.

Objective:

To characterize maternal morbidity in the Intensive Care Unit of the General Teaching Hospital "Orlando Pantoja Tamayo" of the Santiago de Cuba province during the years 2014-2019.

Method:

An observational study was conducted, which included 223 patients treated in the Intensive Care Unit for complications related to pregnancy-childbirth-puerperium, in the period of time from January 2014 to December 2019. A descriptive analysis of the variables was performed: age, service of origin, diagnosis, stay and complications.

Results:

56% of admitted patients were within 20 and 29 years of age, with hypertensive disorders associated with pregnancy with 65.4% and obstetric hemorrhage for 22.0% the main causes of income. The average stay of the patients was 3.6 days and during it, diabetes insipidus was the main complication.

Conclusions:

Maternal morbidity was characterized by presenting at adequate ages for the development of pregnancy, with a stay in Intensive Care Units below what was reported in the literature, and there is a statistical relationship between the diagnosis of admission and the appearance of complications.

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