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No.10 has responded to our petition. Or has it?

… has regular observations recorded on a Modified Early Obstetric Warning System (MEOWS) chart in hospital and in the community, the response merely encourages their use, rather than requires it.

We also asked that new mothers be given clear information and advice on the recognition of childbed fever, specifically, not just the general advice recommended by NICE.

You have quoted us others' …

Maternal deaths are an outrage

"In the 21st century, no woman should have to give her life to give life."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ( Reuters 19 May)

"We must find a way to get maternal mortality recognized as a key indicator of a functioning health system. Let us work together to make sure maternal mortality is a …

MEOWS: Recommended

… admissions in all clinical settings.

In developing this recommendation, a consultant from a hospital where staff are trying to get such a scheme introduced said “we have had three near misses related to unrecognised sepsis in the last two months, all of which would have been picked up by this chart. All three women came close to featuring in the next edition of your Report”. …

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… has regular observations recorded on a Modified Early Obstetric Warning System ( MEOWS ) chart in hospital and in the community and is given clear information and advice on the recognition of childbed fever (also known as puerperal fever and genital tract sepsis) and that doctors and midwives are given clear sepsis guidelines."

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Childbed fever is a serious form of …

1-2-3, Go

… regular observations recorded on a Modified Early Obstetric Warning System (MEOWS) chart - in hospital and at home.

It's really encouraging to hear that more and more hospitals are getting around to implementing them, but they should be in use nationally. Mandatorily and now.

3. Every doctor and midwife to have a clear sepsis guideline.

It is lamentable that such does not exist. …

MEOWS

… I showed the chart to the conference. A midwife came up to me after I had spoken and said that her hospital had had MEOWS on the agenda for a while but that no-one had yet got around to implementing them.

She told me she was on the panel and was going to go back to work to get them implemented. Now.

I want these charts to be used routinely, as in other disciplines, and they should follow a …

The reality of maternal mortality: a father's perspective

… find it.) and her heart rate had increased to 90.

The SHO was bleeped just before 10am. Had the hospital been using this chart, these obs would have registered as a red score and should have made her a priority.

Through the day Jessica's heartrate rose to 100 - which would have registered as a yellow score - and with no sign of her, the SHO was bleeped again.

And again.

At 8pm the …

Anniversary request

Four years ago today, a good mother died unnecessarily from an archaic illness. The world may not have noticed immediately, but the three year old boy crying in his bed, the six day old girl feeding in her father's arms and the grieving widower did.

Together the three of us have kicked, …

In the grip

… of its infection while there is still time to treat a mother before she requires long term hospitalisation, a hysterectomy or she dies.