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April 15, 1899, Vol XXXII, No. 15 >
ARTICLE | April 15, 1899

TREATMENT OF SUDDEN SEVERE POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE.

JOSEPH B. DELEE, M.D.
JAMA. 1899;XXXII(15):802-806. doi:10.1001/jama.1899.92450420010001b.
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Entirely appropriate to the hemorrhage that sometimes occurs after labor is the popular term "flooding." Such furious bleeding as may occur after a labor it is the lot of the general surgeon but very rarely to meet. Postpartum hemorrhage is the obstetric emergency, for here more depends on quick perception, rapid judgment and swift action than in any other condition incident to pregnancy. Even placenta previa and eclampsia, the other two furies of obstetric practice, do not demand such preparedness for complications as does postpartum hemorrhage. Reference is had only to those rare cases where during or after the placental stage, blood gushes from the genitals in a manner which is appalling and places in a few moments the life of the woman in acute jeopardy.

Some authors say that these cases are preventable, that they are due to improper care of the third stage, that a man who has

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