Per-protocol effect of earlier non-pneumatic anti-shock garment application for obstetric hemorrhage

Alison El Ayadi; Luz Gibbons; Eduardo Bergel; Elizabeth Butrick; N T M Y Huong; Gricelia Mkumba; Christine Kaseba; Thulani Magwali; Mario Merialdi; Suellen Miller

doi:10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.02.005

Per-protocol effect of earlier non-pneumatic anti-shock garment application for obstetric hemorrhage

Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2014 Jul;126(1):95-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.02.005. Epub 2014 Mar 19.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Instituto de Efectividad Clinica y Sanitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
³ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ UN Development Programme, UN Population Fund, WHO, and World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia.
⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Abstract

Earlier non-pneumatic anti-shock garment intervention was highly protective against maternal mortality and morbidity when analyzed to account for intervention fidelity; however, not all outcomes reached statistical significance.

Keywords: Hypovolemic shock; Maternal morbidity; Maternal mortality; NASG; Non-pneumatic anti-shock garment; Obstetric hemorrhage.

Publication types

Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

Clinical Protocols
Clothing
Female
First Aid / instrumentation
Humans
Postpartum Hemorrhage / mortality
Postpartum Hemorrhage / therapy*
Pregnancy
Time Factors
Zambia / epidemiology
Zimbabwe / epidemiology

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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