Early hospital discharge and early puerperal complications
Other Title(s)
الخروج المبكر من المستشفي و مضاعفات النفاس المبكرة
Joint Authors
al-Ghazal, Zahiah Sad
Amtul, Fatimah Abd Allah
Source
Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences
Issue
Vol. 35, Issue 4 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.294-303, 10 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2020-12-31
Country of Publication
Libya
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The study aimed to evaluate the association between the time of postpartum dis-charge and symptoms indicative of complications during the first postpartum week.
The cross-sectional study included 753 women with vaginal delivery at Al-Jamhorya teaching public hospital without complications were interviewed before the hospital discharge and sev-en days after.
The time of postpartum discharge was classified as early (≤24hours) or late (>24hours).
A total of 753 mothers were enrolled in the study.
The majority (94.3%) of the mothers stayed in the hospital ≤24hours, 4.1% >24hours, and 1.6 % were discharged against medical advice.
The mean duration of hospital stay was 12.1±6.1 hours, with a minimum hos-pital stay of 2 hours and a maximum stay of 46 hours.
The prenatal care was satisfactory in 91.2%.
Prenatal care was satisfactory in 91% of early discharge mothers and 93.5% in the late group.
This slight difference was not statistically significant.
After delivery, 8.4% had urinary tract infections.
Urinary tract infection after delivery occurred in 8.2% of mothers with early discharge and 12.9 % in mothers with late discharge.
This difference was not statistically sig-nificant.
Complications of episiotomy were recorded in 79.9% of mothers with early dis-charge and 61.3% in late discharge.
This difference was statistically significant.
The study’s conclusions indicated that late discharge mothers had received anesthesia and performed epi-siotomy more than early discharge mothers.
Complications of episiotomy were recorded more in mothers with early discharge than in late discharged mothers.
It is recommended that a ran-domized clinical trial is best to evaluate the association between the time of discharge postpar-tum and the presence of complications, also to attain safety and possible benefits of shorter hospital stay.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Ghazal, Zahiah Sad& Amtul, Fatimah Abd Allah& Bin Suud, Ikram Barakat. 2020. Early hospital discharge and early puerperal complications. Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences،Vol. 35, no. 4, pp.294-303.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1330097
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Ghazal, Zahiah Sad…[et al.]. Early hospital discharge and early puerperal complications. Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences Vol. 35, no. 4 (2020), pp.294-303.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Ghazal, Zahiah Sad& Amtul, Fatimah Abd Allah& Bin Suud, Ikram Barakat. Early hospital discharge and early puerperal complications. Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences. 2020. Vol. 35, no. 4, pp.294-303.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1330097
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 301-302
Record ID
BIM-1330097