An update on the risk factors for and management of obstetric haemorrhage

Women's Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 34-40

  Sebghati, Mercede ^a   Chandraharan, Edwin ^a  

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

Author keywords

compression sutures; HAEMOSTASIS; obstetric shock index; peripartum hysterectomy; Triple P procedure

Indexed keywords

CARBOPROST; ERGOMETRINE PLUS OXYTOCIN; MISOPROSTOL; THROMBIN; TRANEXAMIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ARTERY LIGATION; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYSTERECTOMY; INJURY; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTRAUTERINE BALLOON; MACROSOMIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC HEMORRHAGE; OBSTETRIC SHOCK INDEX; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UTERINE ATONY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMPLICATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE;

ABRUPTIO PLACENTAE; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTNATAL CARE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85027147811     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745505717716860     Document Type: Review

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