文摘
Important proactive strategies are anticipating risk factors, active management of third stage labour and prophylactic oxytocin. Nearly 70% of maternal deaths caused by obstetric hemorrhage are considered preventable. Immediate treatment of the cause by drugs or surgery, resuscitation and timely correction of coagulopathy is the key to the management of postpartum hemorrhages (PPH). If medical therapy (oxytocin, sulprostone) fails uterine balloon tamponade and, if bleeding persists, uterine compression sutures successfully arrest bleeding in more than 80% of cases. Failure of all the procedures is an indication for hysterectomy. Uterine artery embolization may be useful in patients with placenta accreta/increta or ongoing bleeding after surgery. Manual removal of the placenta is mandatory, if the placenta is not separated within 30聽min after birth. If coagulopathy is suspected clinically, intravenous tranexamic acid and fibrinogen should be given in a timely fashion. Activated recombinant factor VIIa should only be considered in patients refractory to adequate surgical and hemostasis-stabilizing procedures.