Postpartum haemorrhage
Prevention of postpartum haemorrhage: a distributional approach for analysis
... Background: There is empirical evidence that measured postpartum blood loss has a lognormal distribution. This feature can be used to analyze events of the type ‘ blood loss greater than a certain cutoff point ’ ...
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Postpartum haemorrhage in midwifery care in the Netherlands: validation of quality indicators for midwifery guidelines
... Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is still one of the major causes of severe maternal morbidity and mortality world- wide. The rate of PPH has increased in recent years in many high income countries, including ...
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Association between fluid management and dilutional coagulopathy in severe postpartum haemorrhage: a nationwide retrospective cohort study
... during postpartum haemorrhage was not performed at predefined time points and samples were obtained on request of the physician on call during postpartum haemorrhage, pa- tients could have ...
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Influencing factors for high quality care on postpartum haemorrhage in the Netherlands: patient and professional perspectives
... To explore the influencing factors for high quality PPH- care from the professional perspective, four focus group interviews were conducted with four different groups of professionals involved in the Dutch PPH-care: 1. ...
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Prevention of postpartum haemorrhage: cost consequences analysis of misoprostol in low resource settings
... A recent Cochrane systematic review, Tunçalp [14], of prostaglandins for preventing postpartum haemorrhage has compared the efficacy and safety of misoprostol ver- sus placebo and misoprostol versus ...
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Women and their birth partners’ experiences following a primary postpartum haemorrhage: a qualitative study
... Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is recognised as a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. Although some studies have explored women’s experi- ences of PPH [6–10], these have focussed on severe PPH. ...
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Clinical characteristics of women captured by extending the definition of severe postpartum haemorrhage with ‘refractoriness to treatment’: a cohort study
... with postpartum haemorrhage who received 4 or more units of RBC or a multicomponent blood transfusion within 24 h following birth, and our results cannot be gen- eralized to all women who satisfy the ...
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Surgical treatment of postpartum haemorrhage: national survey of French residents of obstetrics and gynecology
... Surgical treatment of postpartum haemorrhage national survey of French residents of obstetrics and gynecology RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Surgical treatment of postpartum haemorrhage national survey[.] ...
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How some demographic factors affects postpartum haemorrhage prevention in Maiduguri, Nigeria
... Aim: The following work studied how tribal affilia- tion, educational level and occupation of some women that had PPH in Maiduguri metropolis between Sep- tember 2007 and March 2009 relate with PPH occur- rence. The ...
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Prophylactic management of postpartum haemorrhage in the third stage of labour: an overview of systematic reviews
... Maternal mortality is an indicator of women’s health [1]. The primary cause of maternal death in both developing and developed countries is postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) [2, 3], representing 19.7% of ...
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The impact of the implementation of the postpartum haemorrhage management guidelines at the first regional perinatal centre in Southern Kazakhstan
... In our study, the PPH and severe PPH rate decreased following the implementation of the guidelines. This is in line with the several previous studies, where the de- crease in the PPH and severe PPH rates was reported ...
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Improving Postpartum Haemorrhage Management Using Simulation in Senegal: Midterm Results
... maternal deaths occur within 24 hours of childbirth, mostly due to excessive bleeding. Any pregnant woman may face a blood loss that could endanger her life at the time of delivery; anemic women are particularly ...
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Place of Tranexamic Acid and Fibrinogen Association in the Management of Severe Postpartum Haemorrhage
... Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) remains a public health problem in the world and in Tunisia. Its severity criteria are not consensual in the literature; classical- ly, they associate: a blood loss greater than ...
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Increased postpartum haemorrhage, the possible relation with serotonergic and other psychopharmacological drugs: a matched cohort study
... We consecutively included all women in two hospitals, Sint Lucas Andreas Hospital and Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, between 2007 and 2014 who used psychopharmacological medication during ...
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Identifying the risk: a prospective cohort study examining postpartum haemorrhage in a regional Australian health service
... were prospectively collected, including identified charac- teristics of pregnant and birthing women. The primary outcome was a postpartum haemorrhage (gravimetric blood loss ≥500 ml). Within each study site ...
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Fibrinogen concentrate versus placebo for treatment of postpartum haemorrhage: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... Background: Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a major cause of maternal morbidity. Bleeding is caused by a combination of physical causes, such as failure of the uterus to contract or operations, and is made ...
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The prevalence of women?s emotional and physical health problems following a postpartum haemorrhage: a systematic review
... Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) is recognised as one of the leading causes of maternal mortality worldwide, ac- counting for 1 in 4 maternal deaths globally, but much less is known about morbidity post ...
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Evaluation of uterine condom catheter tamponade in management of atonic postpartum haemorrhage in poor responders to medical management
... Background: Postpartum haemorrhage is major cause of obstetric morbidity and ...of postpartum haemorrhage is uterine atony which accounts for 80% cases of ...
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Bilateral Massive Pulmonary Embolism on Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIVC) after Severe Postpartum Haemorrhage
... a postpartum PE in a 37-year-old obese, multiparous woman with postpartum hemorrhage from uterine rupture after vaginal delivery initiated by injectable ...This postpartum haemorrhage was ...
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High dose tranexamic acid reduces blood loss in postpartum haemorrhage
... Introduction: Our purpose in conducting this study was to determine whether administration of high-dose tranexamic acid (TA) at the time of diagnosis of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) could reduce blood loss. ...
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