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.

[Diagnostic hysteroscopy before the first in vitro fertilization. For whom?].

Background: For some teams, hysteroscopy, should be performed before each IVF attempt to maximize the chances of implantation because of the high cost, the investment in time and the psychological impact of each IVF cycle, but answer to the question of the systematic practice of hysteroscopy prior to IVF is far from settled.

Aim: Assess the benefits of conducting a routine hysteroscopy before the first IVF / ICSI and to identify subgroups in whom this examination provides a real benefit.

Methods: This is a comparative retrospective study about 334 patients, included in an IVF program with micro-injection, in the center of ART of Aziza Othmana hospital of Tunis, for a period of one year.