Consolidated guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage (WHO, FIGO and ICM, 2025)
The 2025 WHO guidelines on preventing, finding and treating heavy bleeding after childbirth. They bring recommendations together in one set, which WHO published with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and the International Confederation of Midwives.
- Guideline
- In this atlas
Overview
Technical summary
First edition, 2025. ISBN 978-92-4-011563-7 (electronic). Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. WHO says it co-published the guidelines with FIGO and ICM, and the three collaborated on them through an executive steering group. The copyright line and the suggested citation name WHO alone. The WHO publication page date is 5 October 2025, which the atlas uses for WHO sources and decisions, and the IRIS record lists an issue date of 2025-09-26. The guidelines consolidate 51 recommendations. This atlas records recommendations 21, 22, 27 and 29. The web annexes with the evidence base were not read. Whether a later edition replaces it was not checked.
About this guideline
- Issued by
- Edition
- First edition, 2025.
- Published
- 2025-10-05
- Status
- Not checked for a newer edition
- Scope
- Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage across antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care.
Source
- Document
- Consolidated guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage
- Publisher
- World Health Organization, co-published with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
- Edition note
- First edition, 2025. The date is the who.int page date, 5 October 2025, which the atlas uses for WHO sources and decisions; the WHO IRIS record lists an issue date of 2025-09-26 for the same document. The web annexes with the evidence base and the implementation guide were not read.
Recommendations
- Recommended: Objective measurement of postpartum blood loss
- Recommended: Objective measurement of postpartum blood loss
- Recommended: Tranexamic acid for treating postpartum haemorrhage
- Recommended: PPH detection and first-response treatment bundle
Record details
- Record id
maternal:pub-who-2025-pph- Content hash
6c0b660939238fc5a237dd5cd76f46b77472ca7dae4648dc06d8193d5c8f406f