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Obstetrics Forum Brazil: Segurança na assistência ao parto (available in Portuguese only)

Over one hundred physicians welcomed Brazil's first Obstetrics Forum sponsored by Ferring in São Paulo during September 17th.

The forum was dedicated to providing evidence-based discussion addressing the issues surrounding 'Safety in Labour Assistance'. A panel of specialists discussed labour induction, preterm labour, post-partum haemorrhage among other relevant themes.

In the occasion the doctors had evaluated the national perspective and have presented their proposals in order to ensure that patients will receive the best labor care, from nurses, specialists and authorities.

Click here to view presentations from this event.

"Common Errors and Remedies in managing Postpartum Haemmorhage"
XXII European Congress on Perinatal Medicine
May 26-29, 2010, Granada, Spain

	Introduction Professor Gian Carlo Di Renzo, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Perugia, Italy
	Latest developments in PPH training and management Dr Tim Draycott, Department of Women’s Health, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK
	Definitions and diagnoses of PPH: underestimated problems Werner Rath, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany
	Active management of the third stage of labour: prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage. Errors and remedies Professor Dan Farine, Head of Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Toronto

Presentations from the 9th World Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Berlin, Germany

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