Interventions for treating placental abruption.

BACKGROUND

Placental abruption is an important cause of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity.

OBJECTIVES

To assess the effectiveness and safety of any intervention for the care of women and/or their babies following a diagnosis of placental abruption.

SEARCH STRATEGY: Comprehensive electronic search of the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth trials register. Date of last search: October 2002.

SELECTION CRITERIA: Randomised and 'quasi-randomised' trials that report clinically meaningful outcomes and present results on an intention to treat basis.

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: If eligible trials were to be identified, data will be extracted, unblinded, by the reviewer from all studies.

MAIN

RESULTS

No studies that met the inclusion criteria were identified.

REVIEWER'S

CONCLUSIONS

The clinical management of placental abruption has to rely on knowledge other than that obtained through randomised clinical trials.