Abstract
Objective: To discuss maternal morbidity or near miss in a public maternity hospital in Manaus. Methods: Retrospective study carried out at a public maternity hospital in Manaus, obtained through medical records filed at the maternity medical files service. Results: The results found were obtained through the criteria and diagnostics of near miss of the patients admitted to the intensive care unit of the Maternity who were in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle (pregnant women, in labor, who gave birth or miscarried within a period of 42 days) through variables raised, whose patients were women who had at least one of the near miss criteria according to WHO. Conclusion: Among the patients, there was a high frequency of young women, the vast majority of whom were primigravid and who did not have adequate prenatal care as recommended by the Ministry of Health, hypertensive disorders related to pregnancy and its complications, such as main criteria of near miss diagnosed affecting these patients, thus emphasizing the importance of obtaining improvements in relation to primary health care.