Mortality and morbidity after emergency peripartum hysterectomy in a provincial referral hospital in Papua New Guinea: A seven-year audit.

Background: Emergency peripartum hysterectomy (EPH) is a life-saving surgical procedure performed at the time of caesarean section or within 24 h of vaginal delivery and is usually a procedure of last resort in obstetric haemorrhage when other interventions fail.

Aim: To investigate the incidence, indications, risk factors and complications of EPH in a provincial referral hospital in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Materials And Methods: This was a seven-year retrospective observational study investigating the rate of EPH at a provincial hospital between January 2012 and December 2018.