Time Determination of Permanence of the Sengstaken Blakemore Ballon in Relation with the Clinical Outcome in Postpartum Hemorrhage Patients

In 2010 it was estimated an incidence of 287,000 cases of maternal death worldwide, the majority of this cases were evitable and were registered in low income countries. The reduction of maternal death has been a global priority for a long time and its one of the Millennium Development Goals and one of the major concerns of the World Health Strategy for Women and Children launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization on September 2010. In 2006, it was determined that the hypertensive disorders and postpartum hemorrhage were the leading causes of maternal death in developing countries. Recently, the Global Burden Disease Study (GBD) gave estimations of the major causes of maternal death, while the deaths of indirect causes represented 27.5%. Postpartum Hemorrhage is the most frequent and direct cause in the world representing 27 %. More than two thirds of these cases were classified as postpartum hemorrhage. Hypertension is the second direct cause of the in the world, with 14.0 %. Maternal Death due to sepsis was 10.7%, abortion represented the 7% and other causes represented the rest with 12.8%.