Obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine guidelines

Maternal and neonatal infections

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Postpartum infections

 

Cochrane

• Cochrane Library
  • Routine antibiotic prophylaxis after normal vaginal birth for reducing maternal infectious morbidity
  • Prophylactic antibiotics for manual removal of retained placenta in vaginal birth
  • Antibiotic regimens for postpartum endometritis

Low and middle-income countries

• PLoS ONE
  • Effect of Puerperal Infections on Early Neonatal Mortality: A Secondary Analysis of Six Demographic and Health Surveys [2017]

Tanzania

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Evaluation of a Clean Delivery Kit Intervention in Preventing Cord Infection and Puerperal Sepsis in Mwanza, Tanzania [2005]

United Kingdom

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Sepsis following Pregnancy, Bacterial [2012]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Managing puerperal sepsis [2006]

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• Guidelines
  • Postpartum (puerperium)
  • Infections in pregnancy