Nurses in low resource settings save mothers' lives with non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (original) (raw)

2012, MCN. The American journal of maternal child nursing

To discuss the role of nurses and nurse-midwives in preventing and treating postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) from uterine atony in developing countries and examine the role of a new device, the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG), in improving the outcomes for these patients. In this subanalysis of a larger preintervention phase/intervention phase study of 1,442 women with obstetric hemorrhage, postpartum women with hypovolemic shock (N = 578) from uterine atony (≥750 mL blood loss; systolic blood pressure <100 mmHg and/or pulse >100 beats per minute) were enrolled in two referral facilities in Egypt and four referral facilities in Nigeria. The study had two temporal phases: a preintervention phase and an NASG-intervention phase. Women with hemorrhage and shock in both phases were treated with the same evidence-based protocols for management of hypovolemic shock and hemorrhage, but women in the NASG-intervention phase also received the NASG. Relative risks (RRs) with 95% confid...

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