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Birthing practices of traditional birth attendants in South Asia in the context of training programmes [PDF]

, 2010
Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) training has been an important component of public health policy interventions to improve maternal and child health in developing countries since the 1970s.
Adamson, P., Armstrong, P., Bajpai, S., Bajpai, S., Bajpai, S., Banerjee, A., Banerjee, A., Bhardwaj, N., Bhutta, Z.A., Brown, H., Carpenter, J.P., Chaudhury, N., Chirmulay, D., Dalmiya, V., Das, B.K., Fatmi, Z., Gavin Turrell, Guha, S., Helen Johnson, Hitesh, J., Hota, P.K., Isenalumbe, A.E., Jeffery, R., Jeffery, R., Jennifer Fraser, John, T.J., Kausar, F., Khan, M.E., Khandekar, J., Kitzinger, S., Kumar, R., Lak, D., Lettenmaier, C., Maitra, K., Mashelkar, R.A., Mathews, Z., Mathews, Z., Mesko, N., Misra, R., Nagadeve, D.A., Nandan, D., Nandan, D., Pfitzer, A., Pinto, S., Raina, N., Ram, K., Rodgers, K.A., Saeed Ali, T., Shariff, A., Sheela Saravanan, Smale, M., Smith, D., Smith, D., Smith, D., Sreeramareddy, C.T., Srivastava, S.P., Unnithan, M.K., Van Hollen, C.   +57 more
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Puerperal infection from the perspective of humanized delivery care at a public maternity hospital Infección puerperal del punto de vista de la atención humanizada al parto en maternidad pública Infecção puerperal sob a ótica da assistência humanizada ao parto em maternidade pública

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2007
This is an epidemiological, prospective and non-concurrent study of the cohort type about puerperal infection from the perspective of humanized delivery care, based on information from 5,178 records of patients who went through the experience of ...
Elisângela Euripedes Resende Guimarães, Tânia Couto Machado Chianca, Adriana Cristina de Oliveira   +2 more
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Carbapenem Resistant Organisms: An Unusual Aetiology for Puerperal Sepsis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Puerperal infection is a common complication of labour. It occurs universally and is usually responsive to first line antibiotics. However, resistance to first line antibiotics and even second line antibiotics is becoming more wide spread.
Vaibhav Londhe, Reeta Vijayaselvi, V. Balaji, Santosh J. Benjamin, Rani Diana Sahni   +4 more
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Evaluation of a 5-year programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection in Northern Uganda [PDF]

, 2010
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) is essential in HIV/AIDS control. We analysed 2000-05 data from mother-infant pairs in our PMTCT programme in rural Uganda, examining programme utilization and outcomes, HIV transmission rates and ...
Ahoua, Laurence, Ayikoru, Harriet, Balkan, Suna, Gnauck, Katherine, Odar, Emmanuel, Odaru, Grace, Olson, David, Ondoa-Onama, Christine, Pinoges, Loretxu, Pujades-Rodríguez, Mar   +9 more
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Prevention of infection and disruption of the pathogen transfer chain in elective surgery [PDF]

, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused us all to stop our normal activities and consider how we can safely return to caring for our patients. There are many common practices (such as an increased use of personal protective equipment) which we are all familiar ...
Chisari, Emanuele, Krueger, Chad A., Lowry Barnes, C., Parvizi, Javad, Van Onsem, Stefaan, Walter, William   +5 more
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Associated factors with Puerperal Sepsis among Reproductive Age Women in Nandi County, Kenya [PDF]

Journal of Midwifery & Reproductive Health, 2017
Background & aim: Studies have shown that puerperal sepsis is a major cause of maternal morbidity and the second cause of maternal mortality in the developing world. This study aimed to determine the incidence and management of puerperal sepsis among the
Maritim Violet Chepchirchir, Jackim Nyamari, Margaret Keraka   +2 more
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Risk factors for venous thromboembolism in 1.3 million pregnancies: a nationwide prospective cohort.

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectiveTo quantify risk factors for venous thromboembolism during pregnancy and the puerperal period.DesignIn a nationwide prospective cohort study we followed pregnant and puerperal women in Denmark from 1995 to 2009 for venous thromboembolism ...
Rie Adser Virkus, Ellen Løkkegaard, Øjvind Lidegaard, Jens Langhoff-Roos, Anne Kristine Nielsen, Kenneth J Rothman, Thomas Bergholt   +6 more
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Analysis of a Streptococcus pyogenes puerperal sepsis cluster using whole-genome sequencing [PDF]

, 2012
Between June and November 2010, a concerning rise in the number of cases of puerperal sepsis, a postpartum pelvic bacterial infection contracted by women after childbirth, was observed in the New South Wales, Australia, hospital system.
Alikhan, Aziz, Aziz, Beall, Beres, Brenciani, C. Venturini, Carver, Croucher, Darenberg, Darling, De Costa, Gilbert, Green, Green, Harris, Hussein, Kwast, Larsen, Lewis, Li, Li, M. J. Walker, Maharaj, Mihaila-Amrouche, N. L. Ben Zakour, Noakes, Rasko, Raymond, S. A. Beatson, Sitkiewicz, Sitkiewicz, Stalhammar-Carlemalm, the Active Bacterial Core Surveillance/Emerging Infections Program Network, the members of the Infection Control Program, WHO, WHO, Zerbino   +37 more
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Effect of Puerperal Infections on Early Neonatal Mortality: A Secondary Analysis of Six Demographic and Health Surveys.

PLoS ONE, 2017
BackgroundAround 1.5 million annual neonatal deaths occur in the first week of life, and infections represent one of the major causes in developing countries.
Saverio Bellizzi, Quique Bassat, Mohamed M Ali, Howard L Sobel, Marleen Temmerman   +4 more
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Perfil epidemiológico e clínico de pacientes admitidas com diagnóstico de sepse puerperal de origem pélvica em uma UTI obstétrica no Nordeste do Brasil Epidemiological and clinical profile of patients admitted at an obstetrical ICU with diagnosis of puerperal pelvic sepsis in Northeastern Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2010
OBJETIVOS: descrever o perfil epidemiológico e clínico das pacientes admitidas com o diagnóstico de sepse puerperal de origem pélvica em uma Unidade de terapia intensiva (UTI) obstétrica.
Euclides Dias Martins Filho, Alan Chaves dos Santos, Renato Stênio Torres Rodrigues Junior, Luis Adeodato, Isabela Coutinho, Leila Katz   +5 more
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