Confirmed Intramniotic Infection Among Women in Labor at Term

Maternal morbidity from intramniotic infection can also occur and can be significant. This can include dysfunctional labor requiring increased intervention, postpartum uterine natin with hemorrhage,. endometritis, peritonitis, sepsis, adult respiratory distress syndrome and rarely death. In 2017 the American College of OBGYN along with the maternal fetal medicine society convened a special panel and diagnosed three different categories for maternal fever in labor.