A promising device to save maternal lives associated with obstetric hemorrhage: The non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG)

• Autores: Miller, Suellen; Belizan, Jose
• Año de publicación: 2015
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: HEMORRHAGE; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; OBSTETRIC FIRST-AID; SHOCK GARMENT
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Preventable maternal mortality associated with obstetric hemorrhage is a human tragedy that mainly occurs in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Massive blood loss leads to hypovolemic shock, which decreases blood flow and therefore oxygen to tissues in the heart, lungs, and brain. Women can rapidly develop disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, tissue anoxia, single or multiple organ failure, and death. Management and treatment of hypovolemic shock due to massive obstetric hemorrhage requires care at the tertiary or referral level, treatment varies dependent on hemorrhage etiology, but generally reversing shock requires not only uterotonics and IV fluids (sometimes available at primary health centers), but also blood transfusions and hemostatic surgeries, only available at Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEmOC) facilities.
Fil: Miller, Suellen. University of California; Estados Unidos
Fil: Belizan, Jose. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina