The Magpie Trial

Sibai also argues that, in developing countries, the morbidity and mortality associated with eclampsia occurs mostly outside hospital, but supports this statement with reference to a retrospective case series from two tertiary hospitals in North Carolina, USA. Contrary to the statements by Sibai and Barry Walters and colleagues, the effect for magnesium sulphate in different perinatal mortality countries was uniform: there is almost complete overlap in the CIs. [...]less than 0–5% of our baby deaths were postneonatal.