Management of massive obstetric haemorrhage

Current Women's Health Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 136-142

  Krishna, Archana ^a   Chandraharan, Edwin ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abruption; Coagulopathy; Compression sutures; Hysterectomy; Massive obstetric haemorrhage; Placenta praevia

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CARBETOCIN; CARBOPROST; ERGOMETRINE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; INFUSION FLUID; MISOPROSTOL; OXYGEN; OXYTOCIN; PROSTAGLANDIN; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; THROMBIN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; AORTA PRESSURE; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BABY; BIRTH; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLEEDING DISORDER; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VOLUME; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPRESSION GARMENT; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONCEPTION; DELIVERY; DEVASCULARIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRITIS; ENDOTAMPONADE; GENITAL INJURY; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LAPAROTOMY; MASSAGE; MASSIVE OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MENSTRUATION; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; PELVIC EXAMINATION; PLACENTA; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEPSIS; SINUS VENOSUS; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SUTURE; SYSTEMIC PELVIC DEVASCULARIZATION; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THROMBOCYTE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE ATONY; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE COMPRESSION SUTURE; UTERUS CONTRACTION; UTERUS INVERSION; UTERUS RUPTURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VARICOSIS; VASA PREVIA; VEIN RUPTURE; VULVOVAGINAL DISEASE;

EID: 79955725745     PISSN: 15734048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340411795445811     Document Type: Article

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