Questions pratiques en cas de survenue d'un décès maternel

Every year, in France, about 70 women die during their pregnancy or the delivery. Any maternal death during labour is a traumatic event for medical team and family. The medical team has to face with many “new” problems. We try to identify all problems which medical team has to face in front of maternal death and try to solve them by a medical literature and French laws review. The medical team often feels powerless when a maternal death occurs. This work was made to be a guideline.