Treatment of post-partum haemorrhage with sublingual misoprostol versus oxytocin in women not exposed to oxytocin during labour: a double-blind, randomised, non-inferiority trial

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9710, 2010, Pages 210-216

  Winikoff, Beverly ^a   Dabash, Rasha ^a   Durocher, Jill ^a   Darwish, Emad ^b   Ngoc, Nguyen Thi Nhu ^c   León, Wilfrido ^d   Raghavan, Sheila ^a   Medhat, Ibrahim ^b   Chi, Huynh Thi Kim ^e   Barrera, Gustavo ^d   Blum, Jennifer ^a  

^a GYNUITY HEALTH PROJECTS   (United States)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Center for Research and Consultancy in Reproductive Health   (Viet Nam)

^d Hospital Gineco Obstetrico Isidro Ayora   (Ecuador)

^e Binh Duong Ob/Gyn Hospital   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; ECUADOR; EGYPT; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHIVERING; SYNCOPE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VIET NAM; VOMITING;

EID: 74249113258     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61924-3     Document Type: Article

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