The effectiveness of acupressure and moksibusi on decreasing blood in first 24 hours of postpartum

Abstract

Background
Active management of Kala III can reduce the incidence of bleeding due to uterine atony, reduce the duration and volume of blood loss, but the facts showed that 8 of 14 mothers who received MAK III standard care experienced lost their blood > 500 mL in the first 24 hours of postpartum due to the oxytocin administration has a relatively short half-life, that is only about 4-10 minutes, so sustainably intervention is needed to keep the uterus contracting effectively in a non-pharmacological manner with acupressure and moxibustion.
Objective
To prove the effect of acupressure and moxibustion in points of BL 60, BL 67, SP 6 and LI 4 on decreasing bleeding in the first 24 hour of postpartum
Method
This reseach used a quasy experiment study with pre-test and post-test only with control group design
Results
The respondents of this research were housewives and multiparas with aterm gestational age, birth spacing ranged from 2-10 years, maternal ages were 31.33 years and 30.8 years. different tests on the acupressure group and the moxibusi by using independent t-test and mann whitney u-test, the total of bleeding volume was not significantly different from P = 0.633
Conclusion
Administration of acupressure and moxibustion can reduce the volume of postpartum bleeding because it is able to keep the uterus contracting effectively.