Bacterial shock in obstetrics and gynecology

Speroff, Leon

doi:10.1016/0002-9378(66)90645-4

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“…Cole and Youngman (1969) have recently outlined the modern treatment of tetanus in Britain and stressed the need for early tracheostomy and intermittent positive pressure ventilation when necessary. Speroff (1966) advocated aggressive surgical management of septic abortion with early hysterectomy and bilateral salpingectomy and Reid (1967) made a similar recommendation for cases of criminal abortion complicated by severe shock. It might be suggested that severe cases of postabortal tetanus in which the spasms fail to respond to adequate sedation would benefit from hysterectomy since the source of toxins would be removed, but we did not perform hysterectomy in any of our cases, and cannot therefore assess its value.…”

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Postabortal and Postpartum Tetanus

Adadevoh

Akinla

1970

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Summary A report is presented of 27 cases of postabortal and postpartum tetanus seen at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital between 1963 and 1967. Twenty‐two of them were associated with abortion and carried a mortality of 50 per cent while one out of 5 postpartum cases died. Uterine tetanus appears to be more severe than other forms and carries a distinctly higher mortality. A reason for this is suggested.

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