Safe Childbirth Checklist
The WHO checklist: four pause points — on admission, just before pushing (or caesarean), soon after birth, before discharge — twenty-nine items that address the main causes of maternal and newborn death
What it is
The WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist as a one-page A4: 29 items across four pause points, covering the major causes of maternal death (haemorrhage, infection, obstructed labour, hypertensive disorders) and newborn death (birth asphyxia, infection, complications of prematurity), with the record line.
Where to use it
On every labour-ward chart; laminated at the delivery bed; the midwife or birth attendant reads it aloud at each pause. Evidence for: Hospital Standard 4 — maternity care; Universal Floor — identification, consent, hand hygiene. Evidence for: Hospital Standard 4 — maternity care; Universal Floor — identification, consent, hand hygiene. Evidence for: Hospital Standard 4 — maternity care; Universal Floor — identification, consent, hand hygiene.
Translate and adapt
English master edition. Georgian and other translations are added as they are clinically reviewed. Any facility may translate, add its logo and adapt wording to local practice — keeping the ASF block, the source attribution and the licence line on the sheet. Clinical thresholds and drug doses must be confirmed against national protocols before use.
The same code is printed on the tool itself. Scan it in any facility to reach this page.
Postpartum Haemorrhage — Drill Card
Newborn Identification and Security — Protocol
Partograph — One-Page Labour Record
Essential Newborn Care — The First Hour and the First Day
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