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5171.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
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| This session will provide an overview of different techniques that have been implemented to improve safe motherhood and infant and child health throughout the world. Interventions in labor management, postpartum hemorrhage, postpartum infection, traditional birth attendant training and preterm birthweight techniques will be addressed. | |||
| Learning Objectives: On completion of the session, participants will be able to: 1) understand the leading cause of maternal mortality-postpartum hemorrhage; 2) recognize the importance of NCPAP as a less invasive modality of respiratory therapy; 3) understand how feasible interventions can help reduce postpartum infection and its associated mortality; 4) identify key issues with increasing access to skilled attendants and liking traditional birth attendants to the biomedical system; and 5) recognize the importance of active management of the third stage of labor. | |||
| Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd, PhD | |||
| Introductory Remarks | |||
| Incidence and Severity of Postpartum Infection After Vaginal Delivery in Vietnam Nancy L Sloan, DrPh, Nguyen Thi Nhu Ngoc, MD, Beverly Winikoff, MD, MPH | |||
Misoprostol for active management of the third stage of labor in university hospitals in Egypt ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Ndola Prata, MD, MSc, Reginald Gipson, MD, MPH, Sabry Hamza, MD, Amr Fathy Abdel-Karim, MD | |||
| Survival of neonates of preterm low birth weight and very low birth weight categories in response to the institution of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) in seven units in Egypt Ayman El Mohandes, MD, MPH, FAAP, Lamiaa Mohsen, MD MSc, PhD, Esmat Mansour Ibrahim El Sharkably, MD, MSc PhD, Reginald F. Gipson, MD, MPH | |||
| Withdrawn -- Traditional birth attendants: A look at the transition to skilled attendants in Safe Motherhood in Cambodia Nancy Marie Habarta | |||
| A Calibrated Drape Versus Visual Assessment for Estimating Postpartum Hemorrhage Ashlesha Patel, MD, Stacie Geller, PhD, Shivaprasad Goudar, MD, Stanley A. Edlavitch, PhD, MA, Bhalachandra KodKany, MD, Richard Derman, MD | |||
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| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | International Health | ||
| Endorsed by: | Maternal and Child Health; Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||