PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Emir Battaloglu
AU  - Keith Porter
TI  - Management of pregnancy and obstetric complications in prehospital trauma care: prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy/perimortem caesarean section
AID  - 10.1136/emermed-2016-205979
DP  - 2017 Mar 07
TA  - Emergency Medicine Journal
PG  - emermed-2016-205979
4099  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/07/emermed-2016-205979.short
4100  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2017/03/07/emermed-2016-205979.full
AB  - The need for prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy/perimortem caesarean section is rare. The procedures can be daunting and clinically challenging for practitioners. Maternal death can be averted by swift and decisive action. This guideline serves to inform prehospital practitioners about conducting maternal resuscitation following cardiac arrest, provides an evidence-based framework to support decision making and highlights areas for improvement in prehospital care.