• DOI:10.1111/1471-0528.16169
Corpus ID: 211079411

Novel suction tube uterine tamponade for treating intractable postpartum haemorrhage: description of technique and report of three cases

@article{Hofmeyr2020NovelST,
  title={Novel suction tube uterine tamponade for treating intractable postpartum haemorrhage: description of technique and report of three cases},
  author={G. Hofmeyr and M. Singata-Madliki},
  journal={BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology},
  year={2020},
  volume={127},
  pages={1280 - 1283}
}

• G. Hofmeyr, M. Singata-Madliki
• Published 2020
• Medicine
• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Uterine balloon tamponade (UBT) is widely used to treat postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). Randomised trials of UBT are scarce: those of improvised condom UBT in low‐resource settings found more harm than good. Uterine suction tamponade (UST) is more aligned with the physiological mechanism of uterine haemostasis (contraction), but purpose‐designed devices may be unaffordable or unavailable when needed. We describe a technique of UST using an inexpensive Levin suction catheter. Use of the described… Expand

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