Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Editorial
• Abbreviations
• First Response Management
• Managing Vaginal Tears
• Cervical Tears
• Supra- and Infralevator Hematomas
• Morbidly Adherent Placenta
• Postpartum Sepsis
• Uterine Ecbolics
• Nonsurgical Tamponade
• Surgical Tamponade
• Uterine and Internal Iliac Artery Ligation
• Role of Interventional Radiology and Uterine Artery Embolization
• Major Obstetric Hemorrhage and Blood Transfusion
• Blood and Component Therapy
• Sheehan Syndrome and Life after PPH
• Role of Simulation Training
• Audit and Clinical Governance in PPH
• Appendix A: WHO Guidelines for Active Management of Third Stage of Labor
• Appendix B: MamaNatalie—A New PPH Training Simulator
• Appendix C: WHO Recommendations on Prevention and Treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage
• Appendix D: FIGO Recommendations for the Prevention and Treatment of PPH
• Appendix E: Obstetric Emergency Box— Saves Time, Saves Hands and Saves Lives

About the Author

Mala Arora (Editor-in-Chief) FRCOG (UK) FICOG FICMCH
Director, Noble IVF Centre, Faridabad, Haryana; Consultant, Fortis La Femme, Greater Kailash, New Delhi, India

Rajalaxmi Walavalkar MRCOG MD DNB FCPS FICOG DGO DFP
Founder Chair RCOG India Liaison Group; Post CCT Clinical Fellow, Homerton University Hospital,
London, UK