common infection is that of the uterus and surrounding tissues known as puerperal sepsis, postpartum metritis, or postpartum endometritis. Risk factors include...

fever and debility. The most common infection causing puerperal fever is genital tract sepsis caused by contaminated medical equipment or unhygienic...

Postpartum psychosis (PPP), also known as puerperal psychosis or peripartum psychosis, involves the abrupt onset of psychotic symptoms shortly following...

known as puerperal mastitis, lactation mastitis, or lactational mastitis. When it occurs in non breastfeeding women it is known as non-puerperal or non-lactational...

research into the efficacy of light therapy and the epidemiology of puerperal sepsis provided the first evidence-based evaluations of these subjects. Colebrook...

Parental leave Postpartum physiological changes Postpartum depression Puerperal disorder Sex after pregnancy Lopez-Gonzalez DM (2023). "Postpartum Care...

obstetrician best known for clearly demonstrating the contagious nature of puerperal sepsis (childbirth fever). By systematically recording details of all visits...

United States for additional studies, which focused on colibacillosis, sepsis, puerperal infections, and investigating whether vaccines could be developed...

rise of temperature in sepsis The uterine height is greater than the normal for the particular day of puerperium. Normal puerperal uterus may be displaced...

in the laboratory against the bacteria that caused disease such as puerperal sepsis, but turned out to be too toxic to be effective in people, despite...

Risks of the maneuver to the mother include soft tissue damage and puerperal sepsis. The Zavanelli maneuver is not performed very often in the United States...

compound that is applied to living tissue to reduce the possibility of sepsis, infection, or putrefaction. Antiseptics are generally distinguished from...

the rate of illness and death during childbirth. Bisset wrote that puerperal sepsis was common due to unsanitary conditions, such as dirty bedding and...

Fetal distress Obstetrical bleeding Placental abruption Prolapsed cord Puerperal sepsis Shoulder dystocia Uterine rupture Anxiety Attempted suicide Excited...

continue watching her health by staying on a diet and physically active. Puerperal Sepsis is a bacterial infection that affects the genital tract, commonly occurring...

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, his mother died two weeks after his birth due to puerperal sepsis. Evans was put to work as a child laborer in the slate mines of Pennsylvania...

(PID) is often used for metritis. Postpartum metritis, also known as puerperal sepsis, occurs within 21 days and is most common within 10 days of delivery...

Ignaz Semmelweiss (1818–1865) to demonstrate the correlation between puerperal sepsis and unsanitary obstetrical practices. As a director of the Narrenturm...

placentation Postpartum hemorrhage Placenta previa increases the risk of puerperal sepsis and postpartum hemorrhage because the lower segment to which the placenta...

; Strauchmann, J.; Schäper, J.; Emons, G. (2014-09-03). "Fulminant Puerperal Sepsis caused by Hemolytic Group A Streptococci and Toxic Shock Syndrome –...

potentially initiate skin infections. Streptococcal infections include sepsis, pneumonia, and meningitis. These infections can become serious creating...

jumping off a bridge with her baby. She is eventually diagnosed with puerperal psychosis and sent to a mental institution for treatment. Shelagh and...

recovered. In treating peritonitis, 16 out of 18 patients recovered. With puerperal sepsis, 14 out of 14 patients recovered. With thrombophlebitis, 34 out of...

2002). ""The contagiousness of childbed fever": a short history of puerperal sepsis and its treatment". Medical Journal of Australia. 177 (11): 668–671...

retained placenta or placental fragments, or bleeding disorders. Puerperal sepsis is an ascending infection of the genital tract. It may happen during...

complications, and problems that occur primarily after childbirth are termed puerperal disorders. While some complications improve or are fully resolved after...

sometimes fatal scarlet fever, to the often fatal puerperal fever, to the usually fatal streptococcal sepsis. Streptococcal infection was a frequent coinfection...

because of high rates of puerperal fever. Until germ theory was accepted in the mid-1800s, it was assumed that puerperal fever was caused by a variety...

also be further subcategorized into ovarian vein thrombosis (OVT) or puerperal ovarian vein thrombophlebitis (POVT) and deep septic pelvic thrombosis...

S2CID 5722987. Ellis, Harold (2011). "Leonard Colebrook and the treatment of puerperal sepsis". British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 72 (2): 109. doi:10.12968/hmed...