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Hi folks, this is a follow up from this thread.
So I have my MC coming to this run-down hospital in a remote place, with her mother. There's just one midwife on duty. They send for a doctor, but he's not on duty and arrives late.
She gives birth fairly easily, holds the child, is happy, and then starts hemorrhaging as midwife tries to get the placenta out. How long would she bleed for? I want her to eventually die through loss of blood (cruel me!) and I'm thinking she's blood group O-positive so needs a transfusion and there's no bloodbank. Her Mother has the wrong blood group. Father is inaccessible. It's night, and the mother is desperate to find someone to donate blood, tries to persuade total strangers to do so.
Would there even be time for all of this? Say there's heavy bleeding and then the bleeding stops -- how much time would there be to potentially find a blood donor with the right group, before she dies? Can they donate blood directly, say lying down next to the patient?
Any details that can enhance the scenario will be gratefully accepted!
So I have my MC coming to this run-down hospital in a remote place, with her mother. There's just one midwife on duty. They send for a doctor, but he's not on duty and arrives late.
She gives birth fairly easily, holds the child, is happy, and then starts hemorrhaging as midwife tries to get the placenta out. How long would she bleed for? I want her to eventually die through loss of blood (cruel me!) and I'm thinking she's blood group O-positive so needs a transfusion and there's no bloodbank. Her Mother has the wrong blood group. Father is inaccessible. It's night, and the mother is desperate to find someone to donate blood, tries to persuade total strangers to do so.
Would there even be time for all of this? Say there's heavy bleeding and then the bleeding stops -- how much time would there be to potentially find a blood donor with the right group, before she dies? Can they donate blood directly, say lying down next to the patient?
Any details that can enhance the scenario will be gratefully accepted!