ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION: Pelvic packing (PP) as a simple method of "damage control surgery" in severe abdominopelvic hemorrhage in gynecological and obstetric surgery after emergency obstetrics or gynecological hysterectomy. OBJECTIVE: To present the case of successful PP as a simple and effective method in refractory pelvic bleeding after emergent peripartum hysterectomy and severe obstetric shock with consumptive coagulopathy. CASE REPORT: Acording to laboratory findings and clinical condition in a 30-year-old (G2 P2) parturient, it was most likely an obstetric embolism with uterine rupture as the cause of severe postparum hemorrhage with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy and obstetrics hemorrhagic shock development in the described case. Pelvic packing after postpartum hysterectomy was the definitive minimally invasive and simple hemostatic procedure. CONCLUSION: The use of pelvic packing and obstetrics skills should be included in the protocol as a necessary, life-saving, and uncomplicated vital indication procedure.
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Obstetrics , Postpartum Hemorrhage , Uterine Rupture , Pregnancy , Female , Humans , Adult , Postpartum Hemorrhage/therapy , Postpartum Hemorrhage/drug therapy , Postpartum Period , Pelvis , Hysterectomy/methods , Uterine Rupture/surgerySubject(s)
Abruptio Placentae/etiology , Placenta/pathology , Stroke , Abruptio Placentae/pathology , Abruptio Placentae/surgery , Adult , Cesarean Section , Female , Humans , Hysterectomy , Pregnancy , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
The aim is to present the 60-year experience in modified Ritgen maneuver according to perineal injuries. This retrospective clinical observational study (1950-2010) analyzed the impact of modified Ritgen maneuver delivery technique (controlled fetal head deflexion with left hand and synchronous reduction of perineal strain with extended right hand thumb along the right side of the vulva and perineum without pushing) on peripartum perineal tears at the Maternity Ward, Bjelovar General Hospital in Bjelovar, Croatia, divided into five-year intervals. The rate of perineal tear in general was less than 5% until 2000. The rate of perineal tear grade I was very low until 1995, then increased to 8.6% in 2010, yet never exceeding 10%. The rate of perineal tear grade II never exceeded 2%, whereas perineal tear grade III was a sporadic event never exceeding 0.4% of the study material with a single case of grade IV tear. The rate of intact perineum in vaginal deliveries without episiotomy ranged from 96.2% to 100% in the 1950-1960 period, with a decrease to 46% in 2010. The study revealed the modification of Ritgen maneuver described to have resulted in significant re-duction of all grades of perineal tear over decades.
