"Post partum hemorrhage: causes and management"

An audit of primary post partum hemorrhage.

BACKGROUND Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. Its causes & risk factors are important for its prevention and management. Poor, unhealthy, high parity women delivering away from health facility are usual victims. The purpose of this study is to determine causes of PPH, risk factors, preventable factors and to assess treatment measures a...

Management of post-partum haemorrhage.

Management of post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) involves the treatment of uterine atony, evacuation of retained placenta or placental fragments, surgery due to uterine or birth canal trauma, balloon tamponade, effective volume replacement and transfusion therapy, and occasionally, selective arterial embolization. This article aims at introducing pregnancy- and haemorrhage-induced changes in coagula...

Caesarean and post partum hysterectomy

Backgroun: Caesarean Hysterectomy is an emergency procedure and is performed in the event such as uterine rupture or uncontrollable postpartum hemorrhage. Postpartum hysterectomy can be performed a few hours of normal delivery, instrumental delivery or caesarean section or sometime may be done in puerperium. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence and causes of postpartum hem...

Postpartum Hemorrhage Causes Maternal Mortality

Post-Partum Haemorrhage.

Post-partum haemorrhage is defined as being "excessive bleeding from any part of the genital tract after the birth of a child." Some authorities make a hair-splitting definition and describe intra-partum haemorrhage when excessive bleeding occurs before the placenta has been delivered, and confine the term post-partum haemorrhage to excessive bleeding after the completion of the third stage of ...