Society guideline links: Obstetric hemorrhage

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO): Recommendations on the management of postpartum hemorrhage (2022)

●International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG): Hypogastric artery ligation in the management of postpartum hemorrhage (2019)

●ISUOG: Point of care ultrasound for fluid assessment and management in a pre-eclamptic patient with postpartum hemorrhage (2019)

●Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis (NATA), FIGO, the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (EBCOG), and the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA): Consensus statement on patient blood management in obstetrics – Prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage (2019)

●FIGO: Consensus guidelines on placenta accreta spectrum disorders (2018)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Recommendations on uterotonics for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage, update (2018)

●WHO: Updated recommendation on tranexamic acid for the treatment of postpartum haemorrhage (2017)

●FIGO: Guidelines for non-pneumatic anti-shock garment to stabilize women with hypovolemic shock secondary to obstetric hemorrhage (2015)

●International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and FIGO: Joint statement on the use of misoprostol for the treatment of postpartum haemorrhage (2014)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline for active management of the third stage of labour − Prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage (2009, reaffirmed 2018)

United States

●Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Choosing Wisely – Don't do an inherited thrombophilia evaluation for women with histories of pregnancy loss, fetal growth restriction (FGR), preeclampsia and abruption (2022)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): Appropriateness Criteria on postpartum hemorrhage (2020)

●ACR: Appropriateness Criteria on second and third trimester vaginal bleeding (revised 2020)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on quantitative blood loss in obstetric hemorrhage (2019)

●ACOG and SMFM: Obstetric care consensus on placenta accreta spectrum (2018)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on postpartum hemorrhage (2017)

●SMFM: Consult series for the management of bleeding in the late preterm period (2017)

●American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP): Practice guidelines for obstetric anesthesia, an updated report (2016)

●ASA: Practice guidelines for perioperative blood management, an updated report (2015)

●National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Recommendations for reducing obstetric hemorrhage (2015)

Europe

●Network for the Advancement of Patient Blood Management, Haemostasis and Thrombosis (NATA), International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), the European Board and College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (EBCOG), and the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA): Consensus statement on patient blood management in obstetrics – Prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage (2019)

●ESA: Guidelines for the management of severe perioperative bleeding (2013)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies (2019)

●British Society for Haematology (BSH): Guideline for the use of viscoelastic haemostatic assays in the management of major bleeding (2018)

●Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (RCOG): Green-top guideline on placenta praevia and placenta accreta − Diagnosis and management, 4th edition (2018)

●RCOG: Green-top guideline for the prevention and management of postpartum haemorrhage, 2nd edition (2016)

●RCOG: Green-top guideline on antepartum haemorrhage (2011)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Clinical guidance statement for the management of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) (2021)

●Queensland Health: Maternity and neonatal clinical guideline on primary postpartum haemorrhage (2018, amended 2020)

●Australian Haemophilia Centre Directors' Organisation (AHCDO): Updated Australian consensus statement on management of inherited bleeding disorders in pregnancy (2019)

●RANZCOG: Green-top guideline for prevention and management of postpartum haemorrhage (2016)

●National Blood Authority (NBA): Patient blood management guidelines − Module 5: Obstetrics and maternity (2015)

●RANZCOG: Placenta accreta (2014, amended 2015)

●Guidelines for the use of recombinant activated factor VII in massive obstetric haemorrhage (2008)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA): Guidelines for management of critical bleeding in obstetrics (2017)

●[In English] Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology (JSIR): Procedural guidelines on interventional radiology for critical hemorrhage in obstetrics (2015)