A descriptive, cross-sectional study of postpartum education: midwives' self-reported knowledge and teaching of postpartum complications in Ghana.

Midwives did not always teach patients about complications. Most midwives felt knowledgeable to teach and manage hemorrhage, infection, and preeclampsia/hypertension but not cardiac events, pulmonary embolism, and venous thrombosis. Additional training of midwives on life-threatening complications such as pulmonary embolism and cardiac events is recommended.