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Post-partum Haemorrhage: Prevention, Medical and Mechanical Methods of Management

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PPH is defined as any blood loss that causes a major physiological change (e.g. a fall in blood pressure), as the risk of dying from PPH depends not only on the amount and rate of blood loss but also on the health of the woman.

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  1. Department Obstetrics Gynecology, SN Medical College, Agra, India

    Ruchika Garg

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  1. Arihant Women’s Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

    Alpesh Gandhi

  2. Global Rainbow Healthcare, Agra, India

    Narendra Malhotra

  3. Art Rainbow-IVF, Agra, India

    Jaideep Malhotra

  4. Obsetrics and Gynecology, SN Medical College, Agra, India

    Nidhi Gupta

  5. Bharti Vidya Peethmedical College, Pune, India

    Neharika Malhotra Bora

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Garg, R. (2016). Post-partum Haemorrhage: Prevention, Medical and Mechanical Methods of Management. In: Gandhi, A., Malhotra, N., Malhotra, J., Gupta, N., Bora, N. (eds) Principles of Critical Care in Obstetrics. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2692-5_16

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