Bundles for Maternal Safety: Promises and Challenges of Bundle Implementation: The Case of Obstetric Hemorrhage

Abstract

Obstetric hemorrhage remains a leading cause of severe maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States. The National Partnership for Maternal Safety Consensus Bundle on Obstetric Hemorrhage presented a framework to help focus standardization and improvements efforts for obstetric hemorrhage. The critical elements of readiness, recognition and prevention, response, and reporting/systems learning, are described and salient points within each are highlighted. New York state implementation efforts, tools that may help translate the bundle into practice, and remaining challenges, are described.