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We aimed to identify literature documenting how it is implemented in resource-limited and lower-level maternity care settings to inform policies and practices that enable its introduction in these contexts. A rapid scoping review was conducted with an 8-week timeframe by two reviewers. MEDLINE, EMBASE, Emcare, the Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence-Based Practice Database, the Maternity and Infant Care Database, and the Cochrane Library were searched for publications in English, French, and Spanish from January 2011 to September 2021. Randomized and non-randomized studies examining the feasibility, acceptability, and health system considerations in low-income and lower-middle-income countries were included. Relevant data were extracted using pretested forms, and results were synthesized descriptively. The search identified 62 citations, of which 12 met the eligibility criteria. The review did not retrieve studies focusing on acceptability and health system considerations to inform HSC implementation in low-resource settings. There were no studies located in rural or lower-level maternity settings. Two economic evaluations concluded that HSC is not feasible in terms of cost-effectiveness in lower-middle-income economies with private sector pricing, and a third one found superior care costs in births with PPH than without. The other nine studies focused on demonstrating HSC effectiveness for PPH prevention in tertiary hospital settings. There is a lack of evidence on the feasibility (beyond cost-effectiveness), acceptability, and health system considerations related to implementing HSC in resource-constrained and lower-level maternity facilities. Further implementation research is needed to help decision-makers and practitioners offer an HSC-inclusive intervention package to prevent excessive bleeding among pregnant women living in settings where oxytocin is not available or of dubious quality.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph19073765","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,22]],"date-time":"2022-03-22T14:55:35Z","timestamp":1647960935000},"page":"3765","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Implementing Heat-Stable Carbetocin for Postpartum Haemorrhage Prevention in Low-Resource Settings: A Rapid Scoping Review"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Nguyen Toan","family":"Tran","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia"},{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sarah","family":"Bar-Zeev","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"United Nations Population Fund, Technical Division, New York, NY 10158, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Willibald","family":"Zeck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"United Nations Population Fund, Technical Division, New York, NY 10158, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Catrin","family":"Schulte-Hillen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"United Nations Population Fund, Humanitarian Office, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"World Health Organization (2019). 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