August, F. 2016. Effect of Home Based Life Saving Skills education on knowledge of obstetric danger signs, birth preparedness, utilization of skilled care and male involvement. A Community-based intervention study in rural Tanzania. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1174. 76 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9457-5. ...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality traditionally has been the indicator of maternal health all over the world. More recently review of the cases with near miss obstetric events has been found to be useful to investigate maternal mortality. Cases of near- miss are those in which women present with potentially fatal complication during pregnancy, delivery or the puerperium, and survives merely by chan...

Uterine inversion is a rare obstetric emergency that may lead to severe haemorrhage, shock and eventually death. The incidence of uterine varies from one in 2,000-20,000 deliveries. Recurrent still with no exact reported so far. We report case near miss patient, 28 years old primiparous complete atonic postpartum haemorrhage shock, managed by manual repositioning tamponade insertion which got c...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality is related to obstetric complications in pregnancy some of which could be revealed by obstetric sonography. Obstetric sonography has become part of routine antenatal care in both urban and rural settings. The objective of the study was to assess the utilization of obstetric sonography in a rural hospital of Uganda, including the frequency and appropriateness of its...

BACKGROUND The chance of a live birth after a diagnosis of secondary recurrent miscarriage (SRM) is reduced in patients who, prior to the miscarriages, gave birth to a boy and carry HLA class II alleles that efficiently present male-specific (H-Y) antigens to the immune system. Information about obstetric complications in births prior and subsequent to the SRM diagnosis is limited. The relation...

BACKGROUND Depression during pregnancy is a major health problem because it is prevalent and chronic, and its impact on birth outcome and child health is serious. Several psychosocial and obstetric factors have been identified as predictors. Evidence on the prevalence and predictors of antenatal depression is very limited in Ethiopia. This study aims to determine prevalence and associated facto...

OBJECTIVES Obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASISs) are a devastating postpartum complication; reducing rates is paramount to improving quality of care. In Norway, implementation of a perineal protection program decreased the incidence of OASIS by 48%. We sought to assess impact on OASIS rates following a similar program. METHODS This institutional review board-approved, retrospective cohor...

AJN t November 2007 t Vol. 107, No. 11 http://www.nursingcenter.com Ostracized by husbands, families, and communities, these women and girls endure isolation and extreme hardship. “They are so ashamed,” Sister Maura said. “They think it’s their fault, that they did something gnes stood in the doorway, clutching her walking stick. Urine dripped from beneath the brightly colored cloth wrapped aro...

This study investigates the long term economic impact of severe obstetric complications for women and their children in Burkina Faso, focusing on measures of food security, expenditures and related quality of life measures. It uses a hospital based cohort, first visited in 2004/2005 and followed up four years later. This cohort of 1014 women consisted of two main groups of comparison: 677 women...

and press release), also contributing to a lower incidence of complications. However, patient outcome is dependent on vigilance and suspicion of a complication, in turn largely based on the perceived probability of such a complication arising. The present study illustrates this relationship, as permanent damage in many cases might have been avoided by more timely action. Subgroup analysis of pa...