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“You are called urgently into one of the birth suite rooms. A woman has just given birth, there is blood everywhere, she is moaning & breathing (barely). She is a ghastly pale / mottled colour and you can’t feel a peripheral pulse….. it is a sunday afternoon, you work in a smaller hospital and the theatre team aren’t on site…….” Being faced with a shoc...

  https://www.obsgynaecritcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Oxytocin-in-labour-increases-PPH.m4a   The use of oxytocin to induce or augment labour is an established, commonly used practice that underpins a lot of modern obstetric practice. This technique is a undoubtedly a useful tool which has allowed us to improve maternal and fetal outcomes. For example to induce a timely delivery w...