Alexandra Krištúfková, Miroslav Korbeľ, Miroslav Borovský, Jakub Daniš, Monika Dugátová
This work presents severe acute maternal morbidity in Slovakia in the year 2012, which was analysed according to the
questionnaires for each case of maternal morbidity. The overall incidence of severe acute maternal morbidity in Slovakia
in year 2012 was 6.53/1 000 deliveries, from that the severe postpartum haemorrhage was 2.32/1 000 deliveries, peripartum
hysterectomy 0.72/1 000 deliveries, placenta accreta 0.37/1 000 deliveries, uterine rupture 0.27/1 000 deliveries,
eclampsia 0.29/1 000 deliveries, HELLP syndrome 0.63/1 000 deliveries, transport of a woman to the intensive care
unit/ department of anaesthesiology and resuscitation 1.46 /1 000 deliveries, sepsis 0.21/1 000 and non-fatal amniotic
fluid embolism 0.04/1 000 deliveries.