Overview
Objectives: To evaluate the effect of oxytocin in reducing intraoperative blood loss in patients with PAS disorders planned for cesarean hysterectomy.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy of singleton living fetus
- Previous one or more cesarean sections
- Gestational age: > 32 weeks
- The following ultrasound markers such as "loss of clear retroplacental translucency", "myometrial thinning", "abnormal lacunae", "irregular bladder wall", "utero-vesicalhypervascularity".
- Preoperative hemoglobin more than 10 gm/dl
- Cases with PAS that will undergoing CS Hysterectomy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Maternal medical disorders e.g.: coagulation defects, cardiac diseases etc.….
- Any known or reported hypersensitivity to the used medication.
- All cases with spontaneous placental separation at laparotomy.
- All patients undergoing conservative management of PAS.
- All cases which necessitate emergency termination.