Prevention
What is a hemorrhage cart?
A risk factor surrounding maternal weight.
What is maternal obesity?
According to the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, PPH is defined as this amount of blood loss within a 24 hour period.
What is 1,000 mL?
Drills, huddles, and _________ allow for team members to practice PPH treatment in a controlled and safe environment.
What is simulations?
A condition characterized by high blood pressure with damage to the liver or kidneys, occurring usually after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
What is preeclampsia?
This type of medical instrument is used to extract tissue that is adhered to the uterus.
What is a curette?
The percentage of women that PPH affects in the United States.
What is 12%
The first line of medication used after delivery.
What is pitocin?
The term for a newborn that is much larger than average.
What is fetal macrosomia?
A medication used in PPH treatment that should not be given to a patient with elevated blood pressures.
What is Methergine?
Tone, Trauma, Tissue, Thrombin.
A condition in which bacteria infects the membranes surrounding the fetus, as well as the amniotic fluid.
What is chorioamnioitis?
A medication used in PPH treatment that should not be used in a patient with asthma.
What is Hemabate?
A group of people who follow a certain religion that rejects nearly all blood transfusions; what blood products are admissible should be discussed with them prior to any delivery in anticipation of hemorrhage.
What is Jehovah's Witnesses?
A type of testing used to identify or rule out conditions in pregnancy.
What is antenatal?
This percentage of women will have PPH with no risk factors present.
What is 20%?
Four medications that are used in PPH treatment.
What is Methergine, Hemabate, Cytotec, and Tranexamic acid?
This procedure is done on large hematomas that have developed after birth (treatment for one of the four T's: trauma).
What is incision and evacuation?