OBJECTIVE to analyze the prevalence of pregnancy complications and sociodemographic profile of puerperal patients with complications, according to the form of financing of the childbirth service. METHOD cross-sectional study with interview of 928 puerperal women whose childbirth was financed by the Unified Health System, health plans and private sources (other sources than the Unified Health ...

Puerperal fever was common in mid-19(th)-century hospitals and often fatal, with mortality at 10%-35%. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian gynecologist who is known as a pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Semmelweis discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever could be drastically cut by the use of hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics. He is also described as the "savior of mothers"...

Leonard Colebrook was a physician who researched bacteria and infections in England during the twentieth century. In 1936, Colebrook deployed the antibiotic Prontosil to treat puerperal fever, a disorder that results from bacterial infections in the uterine tracts of women after childbirth or abortions. Colebrook also advanced care for burn patients by advocating for the creation of burn units ...

WE propose in this article to give the experiences of this hospital in the treatment of puerperal eclampsia, and to touch upon some of the salient features of this condition noted here So far, no analysis of a large number of cases of puerperal eclampsia in Indian cities has been published in recent years. _ The last article on the subject was a paper read in 1908 by Major G G Giffard, a former...

INTRODUCTION Inversion of the uterus is an uncommon complication of the puerperium and it is an even rarer complication of the non-puerperal period. A submucous myoma is mostly the cause of the non-puerperal inversion but diagnosis can be difficult. In young women, non-puerperal uterine inversion is likely associated with a malignancy. CASE PRESENTATION A 19-year-old nulliparous woman present...

scientific study, observations which tend to throw light on matters legarding which convincing testimony is still wanting are more than welcome to the student and progressive practitioner; and we would particularly invite attention, in. this treatise, to the author's views regarding the pathology and treatment of puerperal eclampsia, that still obscure and dangerous complication of the pregnant...

background: inversion of the uterus is very uncommon. patients may present with pelvic pain, vaginal discharge, or hemodynamic shock. case: we report a case of 35 years old women (virgin) who was admitted with profuse vaginal bleeding and cramps of uterus. in the vaginal examination at litothomy position a mass of 58 cm in size was protruded from the vagina. at first myomectomy was performed a...

objective: this study was undertaken with an aim to determine bacterial species involved in post partum infections and also their abundance in patients admitted to at khanevadeh hospital. in this study out of three different kinds of postpartum infections (i.e. genital, breast and urinary tract), only genital infection is considered. materials and methods:  post partum infection among 6077 pati...