Uterine balloon or vacuum tamponade for postpartum haemorrhage

Technical summary

A procedure-level record for intrauterine tamponade devices. In the United States one product code, OQY (openFDA name: Intrauterine Tamponade Balloon), covers both families recorded here: a balloon device, which uses the fluid pressure of an expanding balloon, and a vacuum device. Their cleared indications, on the linked product pages, are worded differently for each device and each state that conservative management is warranted. No guideline recommendation and no trial of tamponade was read for this record, so it states no effect and no place in a treatment sequence.