Fellow University of California San Francisco San Francisco, California
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Session Description: Your charge nurse notifies you that in five minutes EMS will be bringing in a 28 year old altered and hypotensive female patient. “Oh, and she’s 32 weeks pregnant” your charge nurse adds. Are you ready for this resuscitation? What special considerations should you keep in mind to best take care of this patient? Come explore differences in pathophysiology, lab value interpretations, and changes to resuscitation maneuvers that the emergency medicine physician should keep in mind to best take care of this unique and complex patient population.
Learning Objectives:
Understand that critical illness in gravid patients is an essential skill for the emergency medicine physician
Apply three basic principles to remember the key differences in pathophysiology of a third trimester gravid patient compared to the standard physiology of a non-gravid patient
Prepare to lead a resuscitation of a critically ill gravid patient presenting to the Emergency Department
Review key differences in pathophysiology of a third trimester gravid patient compared to the standard physiology of a non-gravid patient.