Postpartum hemorrhage: Could oxytocin be the cause? Results from a morbidity and mortality review to enhance quality, safety, and relevance of care.

Introduction: A sudden postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) increase has been subjectively observed during summer 2018 in our level-3 maternity, despite following all official recommendations for PPH care. This observation led us to conduct a morbi-mortality review to understand morbidity increase reasons.

Methods: We conducted a first retrospective comparative cohort study from 2017 to 2018 to compare PPH rates.

[Injuries of the abdominal aorta. General review apropos of a late discovered case].

The authors present a case of acute ischemia of one lower limb with a an uncommon etiology. The cause of embolism was an incomplete thrombosis of the abdominal aorta; this followed a blunt trauma occured three months before. Some similar cases, reported in the litterature, are resumed.