Table 2.

Treatment of the patient during the hospital stay

Treatment during first 3 days of stay in Medicine Ward • Dexamethasone 6 mg intravenously 4 doses with 12 hbetween each dose for foetal lung maturation • Flucloxacillin 500 mg orally QID • Ferrous ascorbate 100 mg orally and folic acid 1.5 mg orally • Ranitidine 150 mg OD intravenously

Treatment on the fourth day of hospital stay before the shift to MICU • Intravenous injections of Vitamin K 10 mg stat and Tranexamic acid 1 gm stat • 12 pints of 0.9% normal saline • 1 pint of whole blood • 4 pints of packed cells • 4 pints of fresh frozen plasma