Volume 6
Number 1 January 2022Management of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Following PPH: A Case Report
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70357/jdamc.2022.v0601.08
Ahmed S1 , lslam R2
Abstract
Disseminated intravascular coagulation is a life threatening complications of severe post-partum hemorrhage. That is the end point of a pathologically activated cascade leading to excessive consumption of platelets culminating bleeding. It results from washing out of all important procoagulants. A case of post-partum hemorrhage following caesarean section is reported. She was treated by emergency peripartum hysterectomy and aggressive blood and blood component therapy.
Keywords: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulations (DIC), Post-Partum Hemorrhage (PPH), Blood component therapy
- Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology