title: [Inter-hospital transfer for severe postpartum hemorrhage].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To elaborate guidelines for inter-hospital transfer for severe postpartum hemorrhage.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bibliographic search in Medline and Cochrane Database by PubMed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Severe postpartum hemorrhage sometimes needs inter-hospital transfer for arterial embolization or admission in intensive care unit. Validation of this transfer needs multidisciplinary decision, including obstetricians, anesthesiologist-intensivists of primary and tertiary center and prehospital medical team. If bleeding is too important or in case of uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock, inter-hospital transfer may be dangerous and local surgical hemostasis should be preferred. In such situation, prehospital medical team should stay on scene for help especially in small institutions where medical and paramedical resources are sometimes insufficient. In case of inter-hospital transportation, organ failure should be controlled and blood transfusion, if needed, should be initiated before. The patient should be transferred to a multidisciplinary center (surgery, anesthesiology and ICU, interventional radiologist, blood bank).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Inter-hospital transfer for severe postpartum hemorrhage is possible under certain conditions including continuation of blood transfusion and organ failure correction.
authors.affiliation: Département d'anesthésie-réanimation SMUR, hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 2, rue Ambroise-Paré, 75010 Paris, France. Electronic address: mathias.rossignol@lrb.aphp.fr.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rossignol
authors.affiliation: Département d'anesthésie-réanimation SAMU de Paris, hôpital Necker-Enfants-malades, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 149, rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rozenberg
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000592:standards*; D006473:Postpartum Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D012771:Shock, Hemorrhagic / Q000628:therapy*; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Arterial embolization; Choc hémorragique; Embolisation artérielle; Hemorrhagic shock; Hémorragie du post-partum; Inter-hospital transfer; Postpartum hemorrhage; Transport inter-hospitalier