Table 3.

Complications associated with EPH

Complication	Number of women (%)
Mild to severe coagulopathy	12 (19.4 %)
Injury to the urinary tract	11 (17.7 %)
Injury to bladder	10 (16.1 %)
Inadvertent ligation of ureter	1 (1.6 %)
Febrile morbidity	8 (12.9 %)
Wound infection	6 (9.7 %)
Return to theater
To control persistent hemorrhage	6 (9.7 %)
To remove pack placed to control persistent oozing in the pelvis	5 (8.1 %)
To remove hemovac drain sutured inadvertently to rectus sheath	1 (1.6 %)
Reaction to blood transfusion	1 (1.6 %)
Cardiomyopathy	1 (1.6 %)
Maternal death	1 (1.6 %)