Table 3.

Severe maternal morbidity rates per 1000 women by pathologies or interventions, according to the countries

Countries	No. of women	Eclampsia	ICU admission	Blood transfusion whatever the number of units*	Hysterectomy	Embolisation
Austria**
Belgium Flanders	59 956	NA	NA	11.5	NA	NA
Cyprus**
Czech Republic	96 771	0.2	NA	NA	0.8	NA
Denmark	63 781	0.3	NA	11.0	0.3	0.0
Estonia	13 879	0.6	NA	NA	0.9	NA
Finland	56 878	0.2	NA	0.1	0.2	0.2
France	774 870	1.1	0.5	2.1	0.3	0.3
Germany–Bavaria	105 490	0.7	3.1	10.7	1.0	0.0
Greece
Hungary	93 913	0.5	NA	NA	1.0	0.0
Ireland**
Italy	534 568	1.6	NA	4.6	0.9	0.0
Latvia	20 256	0.4	NA		0.8	NA
Lithuania**
Luxembourg
Malta	3838	1.3	NA	5.2	0.5	NA
The Netherlands	187 910	0.7	2.2	6.4	0.3	0.3
Norway**
Poland	213 190	0.2	NA	NA	NA	NA
Portugal**
Scotland only	53 342	0.6	NA	NA	0.2	NA
Slovakia**
Slovenia	17 629	1.1	NA	10.6	0.6	NA
Spain–Valencia	38 389	0.3	NA	6.5	0.3	NA
Sweden**
United Kingdom (Wales and Scotland)	82 911	0.67***	NA	NA	0.13***	NA

^*The number of transfusion units provided by the countries were so heterogeneous (three units or more, five units or more, other amount, no units specified) that we summarised the data in only one category.

^**No data provided; Norway did not participate in the data collection.

^***The rates were estimated from two nations only, Wales and Scotland.