Digital Scales of Web-Based Partograph in Detecting the Early Postpartum Bleeding

INTRODUCTION: A simple graph partograph serves to record the information of the inpartu mothers during their 1st active phase of labor, to detect complications, to make an appropriate action in decision making, to prevent prolonged labor, postpartum hemorrhage, and sepsis. The aimof this research was to compare the use of digital scales of web-based partograph and the conventional partograph in detecting the early estimation of postpartum bleeding at the stage III and IV.

MATERIALS & METHODS: The study used the Quasi-Experiment method.Thirty women in labor were chosen by using the purposive sampling technique. The web digital scale and the conventional digital scale were used to weigh the underpad of the postpartum at the stage III and IV. The Independent T-test and Mann-Whitney test were employed to analyze the data.

RESULTS: The results of the study indicated that the digital scale of the WEB-based partograph was more rapid in estimating the postpartum hemorrhage at the stage III and IV comparing to the digital scale of conventional partograph. The statistical test of Mann-Whitney revealed the p-value > 0.05, which means that there was a difference in the speed but in case of the accuracy aspect of p-value > 0.05, it means that there was no difference. In case of the estimation of the blood amount at stage III and IV, the test value of the Independent T-test revealed the p-value of > 0.05, which means that there was no difference in the estimation of the postpartum hemorrhage.

CONCLUSION: It was concluded that the digital scale of web-based partograph was faster in estimating postpartum hemorrhage at period III and IV comparing to the digital scales of conventional partograph and there were no differences in its accurateness and number of postpartum hemorrhage at the stage III and IV.