Common errors and remedies in managing postpartum haemorrhage

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 317-326

  Lombaard, Hennie ^a   Pattinson, Robert C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b MRC Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Research Unit   (South Africa)

Author keywords

B Lynch; cell saver; internal iliac ligation; maternal morbidity and mortality; postpartum haemorrhage; uterine tamponade

Indexed keywords

CARBOPROST; ERGOMETRINE; METHYLERGOMETRINE; MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO; SULPROSTONE;

ANEMIA; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DELIVERY; DEVASCULARIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CONTROL; DIZZINESS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; LABOR MANAGEMENT; LABOR STAGE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL ERROR; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; VOMITING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIGATION; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MEDICAL ERRORS; OXYTOCICS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVORS; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION;

EID: 67349106385     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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