puerperal fever, also called childbed fever, infection of some part of the female reproductive organs following childbirth or abortion.

What is puerperal fever also called?

puerperal fever, also called childbed fever, infection of some part of the female reproductive organs following childbirth or abortion.

Who identified the cause of childbed fever?

Abstract. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician who discovered the cause of puerperal or childbed fever (CBF) in 1847 when he was a 29-year-old Chief Resident (“first assistant”) in the first clinic of the lying-in division of the Vienna General Hospital.

What was purple fever?

Introduction. Puerperal fever was a devastating disease. It affected women within the first three days after childbirth and progressed rapidly, causing acute symptoms of severe abdominal pain, fever and debility.

How is puerperal sepsis diagnosed?

How is puerperal infection diagnosed? Postpartum infections can be diagnosed by your doctor through a physical exam. Your doctor may take a urine or a blood sample to test for bacteria or use a cotton swab to take a culture of your uterus.

What is maternal sepsis?

Maternal sepsis is a severe bacterial infection, usually of the uterus (womb), which can occur in pregnant women or more commonly, in the days following childbirth. Infection that occurs just after childbirth is also known as puerperal sepsis.

What is puerperal endometritis?

Postpartum endometritis is an infection that some women develop after giving birth. The infection occurs in the lining of the uterus (the endometrium) or the upper genital tract. This postpartum infection is caused by bacteria. These bacteria may already be inside you before birth, or they can enter during childbirth.

What is postnatal sepsis?

What did Semmelweis discover?

Semmelweis discovered that cases of puerperal fever, a form of septicemia, could be cut drastically if doctors washed their hands in a chlorine solution before gynaecological examinations. Semmelweis’s observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time.

What is puerperal sepsis PPT?

DEFINITION OF PUERPERAL SEPSIS • According to The World Health Organization (WHO), puerperal sepsis is defined as the infection of the genital tract occurring at labour or within 42 days of the postpartum period.