In the delivery room, circumstances can turn dire on a dime if the patient starts losing excessive amounts of blood. One minute she seems fine, and the next, vital signs plummet, the patient crashes, ...

In patients undergoing vaginal delivery, postpartum hemorrhage remains the leading cause of maternal mortality. Major challenges include delays in the diagnosis of postpartum hemorrhage, coupled with ...

It’s Black Maternal Health Week. Here’s everything you should know to protect yourself and those you love. As a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, Kameelah Phillips, MD, knows what it ...

August 29, 2011 — In postpartum women, the risk for atonic hemorrhage appears to increase rapidly with increasing body mass index (BMI), new research findings suggest. Marie Blomberg, MD, PhD, from ...

Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide, accounting for 25% of deaths from obstetric causes. Although balloon tamponade has been widely used to manage uncontrolled ...

In the delivery room, circumstances can turn dire on a dime if the patient starts losing excessive amounts of blood. One minute she seems fine, and the next, vital signs plummet, the patient crashes, ...

Postpartum hemorrhage - severe bleeding after childbirth - is a leading cause of maternal deaths worldwide. There have been few innovations in treatment in recent years. In a new study to be presented ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A new study suggests early intervention with a minimally invasive treatment can reduce the number of hysterectomies due to postpartum hemorrhaging. “These findings are important ...

Maternal morbidity increased by 30.4% in preterm vs. term births. The most prevalent complications for both term and preterm births were postpartum hemorrhage, use of a uterotonic agent and ...

Through new guidelines released today in The Lancet Global Health, leading reproductive health agencies are calling for a major shift in how postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is prevented, diagnosed and ...

A study led by obstetricians has shown that a new device can rapidly control postpartum hemorrhage, a major cause of severe maternal morbidity and death, in a wide range of patients. A study led by ...