El-Menia Air Inflated Balloon in Controlling Atonic Post Partum Hemorrhage

Abstract

Objective: To design and test an in-expensive air-inflated balloon that is easy to sterilize and use for the control of atonic post
partum hemorrhage (APPH).
Outcome measures: Primary outcome measure: Maternal Mortality (MM).
Secondary outcome measures: Surgical maternal morbidities, amount and doses of drugs, blood transfusion units used for
resuscitation, general condition of women on admission and outcome on discharge, the resuscitation time and time for
regaining normal uterine tone; hospital stay and ICU admission.
Technical outcomes: Incidence of Balloon rupture, allergic manifestations, and pyrexia.
Methods: Randomized clinical trail / cross over study
Two hundred and forty women with diagnosis of atonic PPH complicating vaginal deliveries were randomly assigned to be
managed either by ecbolics and uterine massage as recommended by the WHO; or by WHO protocol plus El-Menia air inflated
balloon.
Results: No maternal mortality in either group. The maternal morbidities in the form of surgical intervention (uterine and ovarian
artery ligation, uterine compression suture, internal iliac artery ligation and abdominal hysterectomy) were observed in five
women in controls and none in the studied women. Blood transfusion units, ecobolic drugs, resuscitation time, regaining uterine
tone time, hospital stay and ICU admission were significantly less in studied women than controls.
Out of the 19 failures to arrest APPH in the controls; 14 cases responded to secondary application of El-Menia balloon, and only
five cases required surgical intervention.
Conclusion : El-Menia balloon is an inexpensive, easy to apply, effective in controlling APPH with minimal side effects. It is
targeted for use on a large scale in developing countries to reduce the maternal mortality and morbidity caused by APPH.
Key words: atonic pph, el-menia balloon
Mohamed, A., Soltan, M. H., Ibrahim, E., Gohar, A., & Ragab, H. (2007). El-Menia Air Inflated Balloon in Controlling Atonic Post Partum Hemorrhage. International Journal of Health Sciences, 1(1). Retrieved from https://pub.qu.edu.sa/index.php/journal/article/view/111
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