OBJECTIVE To determine the role of intraumbilical vein oxytocin reducing blood loss during and after one hour of delivery of placenta and its efficacy in reducing the frequency of retained placenta. STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Combined Military Hospital, Multan, from June 2002 to October 2002. METHODOLOGY Five hundred parturient women with low ris...

I TRUST that a discussion on the management of the third stage of labour will not prove to be devoid of interest, for the matter is one of importance to both the parturient woman and her attendant, whether the latter be midwife or doctor. That controversy has ranged round the proper conduct of the third stage is common knowledge to all who have studied the older obstetrical works, but it may no...

BACKGROUND Primary postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is one of the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. The most common cause of primary PPH is uterine atony. Atonic PPH rates are increasing in developed countries despite routine active management of the third stage of labour. In less-developed countries, primary PPH remains the leading cause of maternal death. Although the ...