An aorta clamp developed by an obstetrician in the State to control torrential bleeding during the surgical management of Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS), a serious obstetric complication and a significant cause of maternal mortality, has been found to be quite useful in containing blood loss and saving maternal lives, without any incidence of vascular injury.
The “Paily aorta clamp”, developed by V. P. Paily, a senior obstetric consultant and a master trainer for the Kerala Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, is currently being used in multiple centres across the State and a few centres outside Kerala, with good results.
A retrospective study of 33 women with varying grades of PAS, who underwent Caesarean hysterectomies as elective or emergency procedures utilising the Paily aorta clamp, appears in the March 2022 issue of the International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics.
