Surgical management of postpartum and pelvic hemorrhage

ABSTRACT

Despite the ready availability of banked blood and blood products, postpartum and pelvic haemorrhage remains one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity all over the world. In developing countries, as in Pakistan, it is among the first three causes of maternal mortality. Sixty-one cases were included in this study, over a period of nine years from various hospitals, such as [i] Maternity and Children Hospital, Dammam affiliated with King Faisal University, Al-Khobar Saudi-Arabia, [ii] Services Hospital affiliated with Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore-Pakistan and [iii] Bahawal Victoria Hospital affiliated with Quaidi-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur-Pakistan. Our management mainly based on surgical treatment along with conventional therapy is discussed