Experience managing postpartum hemorrhage at minia university maternity hospital, Egypt: No mortality using external aortic compression

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1557-1563

  Soltan, Mohamed H ^a   Sadek, Refaat R ^b  

^a MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Minia University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Adjunct treatment; Aortic compression; Maternal morbidity; Maternal mortality; Postpartum hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGYPT; EXTERNAL AORTIC COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL; MORTALITY;

ADULT; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84355167538     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2011.01574.x     Document Type: Article

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