OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to study the characteristics of newborn infants with postnatal findings of severe neonatal intracranial haemorrhage. METHODS All the records of babies who underwent surgery from 1997 to 2002 for intracranial haemorrhage were reviewed. These were correlated with their antenatal records to see if fetal intracranial haemorrhage had been detected at the 2...

Background: Antepartum haemorrhage complicates three to five percent of pregnancies contributing to perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality. Timely access to quality obstetric services is the major determinant of both maternal and newborn outcomes after antepartum haemorrhage. In Ethiopia, the magnitude and consequences of antepartum haemorrhage are not well studied. The objective of thi...

Modern society with its bad ecology, chronic stress and the prevalence of mental activities over physical no longer treats pregnancy as a physiological state with "natural" course of events but the state that requires intensive medical supervision, active, even invasive, intervention during pregnancy and delivery. In most cases such intervention is the only way to save life for a mother and her...

Coagulopathy during intraoperative cell salvage in a patient with major obstetric haemorrhage Editor—Rudra and Basak are to be congratulated on their successful management of major obstetric haemorrhage in a patient with an atonic uterus. The latest CEMACH Report has highlighted atonic uterus as the commonest cause of fatal maternal haemorrhage. However, we would take issue with the suggestion ...

was not indicated in this case; this was confirmed after discussion with our neurosurgical colleagues. Although pulsatile bleeding is usually associated with arterial puncture, in the clinical situation of pregnancy and labour in particular, raised intra-abdominal pressure can cause increased venous pressure within the valveless venous plexus of Bateson potentially producing significant haemorr...

Obstetric emergencies require quick and decisive action to save the life of the mother and the child. Severe hypertensive disorder, haemorrhage and embolism all threaten the life of the mother. The fetus is directly threatened by umbilical cord accidents, other forms of hypoxia and mechanical delivery problems. Death of the mother was frequent in the early part of the twentieth century in the U...

Obstetric emergencies require quick and decisive action to save the life of the mother and the child. Severe hypertensive disorder, haemorrhage and embolism all threaten the life of the mother. The fetus is directly threatened by umbilical cord accidents, other forms of hypoxia and mechanical delivery problems. Death of the mother was frequent in the early part of the twentieth century in the U...

Among 56 pregnancies complicated by obstetric cholestasis five intrauterine deaths and one neonatal death occurred between 33 and 39 weeks, and a further six infants required urgent delivery for intrapartum asphyxia. Eighteen spontaneous premature deliveries occurred. Five mothers required specific treatment for unexplained postpartum haemorrhage. Cholestasis of pregnancy is therefore not a con...

Oncological surgery, obstetric haemorrhage and severe trauma are the most challenging conditions for establishing clinical recommendations use of cell salvage. When likelihood allogeneic transfusion is high, intraoperative this blood-saving technique would be justified, but specific patient selection criteria needed. The main concerns in case oncological surgery reinfusion tumour cells, thereby...