Objective: The
aim is to determine Senior Midwifery
students’ assessments of postpartum hemorrhage quantity through visual manual. Materials and Method: Descriptive research was carried out with senior students
of midwifery department of a university in June, 2016. Data was collected
through utilizing ‘Manual for Visual Estimation of Blood Loss in Obstetric
Hemorrhages’. Results: Age average
of the participants was 22.64(sd:1.44; min:21 max:29). It was detected that
students were close to the actual figures in their estimations about the
quantity of blood on sanitary napkins with 30 ml and 100 ml, and there was not
a statistically significant difference between their estimations and actual
figures (p>0.05). It was seen that they were close to the actual figure in
their estimation about the quantity of
blood in emesis basin with 500 ml, and
there was not a statistically significant difference between their estimations
and actual figures (p>0.05). It was determined that participants were not
close to actual figures in their estimations about the quantity of blood on a
small gauze patch with 10x10 dimensions and with 60 ml blood (p:0.014), on bed
sheet with 250 ml blood (p:0.00), on a large gauze patch with 45x45 dimensions
and with 350 ml blood (p:0.014), on the patient and the bed with 1000 ml blood
(p:0.025), on the floor with 1500 ml blood spilt (p:0.00), and finally on the
patient, the bed and the floor with 2000 ml blood (p:0.00). It was seen that
there was a statistically significant difference between their estimations and
actual figures. Conclusion: In this
research, it was seen that midwifery students were close to actual figures in
their estimations about the quantity of blood on both sanitary napkins on
visual manual. It can be concluded that as the quantity of bleeding increases,
the divergence between actual quantity and the estimations increases, as well.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Health Care Administration |
Journal Section | RESEARCH ARTICLE |
Authors | |
Publication Date | February 10, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Volume: 6 Issue: 1 |