Obstetric Hemorrhage & Hemostatic Resuscitation

Obstetric Hemorrhage & Hemostatic Resuscitation

John R. Hess, MD, provides expertise in hemorrhage control systems, reviews the causes of major hemorrhage in obstetric patients, describes the limits of conventional crystalloid fluid and blood product resuscitation and describes ways to get around the limits of conventional resuscitation.


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John Hess, M.D. MPH

John Hess, MD, MPH

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine

Raised in Spokane, Dr. Hess attended medical school at the UW. He then spent thirty years in the US military and Public Health Service and a dozen years at the University of Maryland before returning to Seattle to develop transfusion systems ...

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