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If someone needs immediate help with postpartum hemorrhage, use emergency mode.
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DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Soaking pads or pooling blood within hours after delivery — life-threatening.
The essentials if you need to act right now.
Call 112. Rub lower belly firm. Breastfeed if possible. Flat legs up if faint.
What might I see? Observable signs — no diagnosis required.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Continuous heavy bleeding after placenta delivered.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Pale skin fast pulse feeling faint soaked through multiple pads.
Optional deeper explanation — not required to act.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Uterus must contract to close blood vessels where placenta detached.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — PPH is leading cause of maternal death globally.
Check the scene before you approach.
Civilian-safe actions you can take.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Call 112. Lay mother flat.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Find fundus — firm massage at bikini line.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Empty bladder — full bladder prevents contraction.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Remove excess clots from vagina gently if visible at entrance only.
When and how to get professional help.
Soaking pad in hour or grapefruit-sized clots is emergency.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Massage and call help. IV fluids and surgery are hospital.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — 112 — postpartum hemorrhage amount consciousness.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Prepare for IV access on arrival.
Dangerous actions, when not to attempt rescue, and common myths.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do NOT ignore bleeding because birth seemed normal.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do NOT give oral fluids if vomiting or unconscious — follow dispatcher.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Bleeding for weeks after birth means current emergency
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Some lochia is normal weeks — emergency is heavy soaking pads hourly or clots with shock signs now.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Confusing normal lochia with active hemorrhage OR ignoring true PPH.
Other scenarios in the same family.
Breech delivery
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Breech presentation delivery imminent — higher risk than head first.
Pregnancy CPR
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Cardiac arrest in pregnancy requires CPR with left uterine displacement.
Pregnancy choking
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Airway obstruction in pregnant woman — chest thrusts not abdominal thrusts.
Cord prolapse
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — After membranes rupture cord slips into vagina ahead of baby — compresses and kills baby fast.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Oxytocin misoprostol blood transfusion in hospital.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Retained placenta may need manual removal under anaesthesia.