Today's conversation in Obstetrics and Gynecology we talk to Prof Elizabeth Sullivan, an Australian epidemiologist and public health physician about maternal mortality in Australia and her work with AMOSS. Journal club discusses 3 articles related to maternal mortality: McDonnell, Nolan, et al. "Amniotic fluid embolism: an Australian-New Zealand population-based study." BMC pregnancy and childbirth 15.1 (2015): 352. Karalis, E., et al. "Decreasing mortality during pregnancy and for a year after while mortality after termination of pregnancy remains high: a population‐based register study of pregnancy‐associated deaths in Finland 2001–2012." BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 124.7 (2017): 1115-1121. Collaborators, WOMAN Trial. "Effect of early tranexamic acid administration on mortality, hysterectomy, and other morbidities in women with post-partum haemorrhage (WOMAN): an international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial." The Lancet 389.10084 (2017): 2105-2116.

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