The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage. It addresses the causes of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), the evidence-based methods of preventing PPH, and covers topics such as:

Photo Credit: Copyright 2001, Jean Sack/ICDDRB, Courtesy of Photoshare. A nurse visits with a postpartum hemorrhage survivor, her grandmother, and healthy infant son in a Bangladesh hospital. The patient arrived in shock, without pulse, 24 hours earlier.

  • The contribution of PPH to maternal mortality globally

  • The causes of PPH
     
  • Healthy practices during pregnancy that can help prevent mortality from PPH

  • Active management of the third stage of labor (AMTSL), the key evidence-based practice for preventing PPH

  • Vigilant monitoring of the "fourth stage" of labor (immediately postpartum)

  • Country-level implementation of an AMTSL component

This course highlights key ways to ensure birth preparedness and complication readiness, and to prevent prolonged labor. It also discusses the need for community advocacy and addresses emerging issues related to preventing PPH (e.g., the use of uterotonic misoprostol by traditional birth attendants).

Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.

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