Last Updated on February 2, 2023
Red Alert system is designed to establish a system of communication to facilitate a fast, efficient and coordinated team management of selected obstetrics emergencies
Examples red alert cases:
- Massive postpartum haemorrhage
- Massive antepartum haemorrhage
- Maternal hypovolemic shock
- Maternal collapse due to cardiac arrest / other causes
- Eclampsia
- Obstetric embolism /Pulmonary embolism / Amniotic fluid embolism
- Uterine Inversion / rupture
- Cord prolapse
- Shoulder dystocia
- Acute fetal distress
- Neonatal resuscitation required urgently