title: Perinatal deaths at the Castle Street Hospital for Women in 1993.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify causes for perinatal mortality at the Castle Street Hospital for women.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective analysis of clinical notes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Castle Street Hospital for Women, Lady Ridgeway Hospital and Sri Jayawardanepura General Hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  All stillbirths and early neonatal deaths at the Castle Street Hospital for Women in 1993.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 192 antepartum, 31 intra-partum and 120 early neonatal deaths. 264 deaths were in low birth weight babies. Pregnancy induced hypertension, cord round the neck, anencephaly, antepartum haemorrhage and idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome were the common causes of mortality.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most deaths may have been prevented with better obstetric and neonatal care.
authors: Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo.
authors: G N
authors: GN
authors: Lucas
authors: R C
authors: RC
authors: Ediriweera
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007226:Infant Mortality / Q000639:trends; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013188:Sri Lanka / Q000453:epidemiology