OBGYN

Though many obstetric complications occur during pregnancy, the pregnant woman is still a woman with all her other organs that can be at risk, regardless of her pregnancy status. Typically, patients with obstetric complications will complain of uterine tenderness, vaginal bleeding and may have abnormal fetal heart tones on monitoring. When signs and symptoms do not support an obstetric cause for the patient’s abdominal pain, it is imperative that the differential is still wide for all other causes.

A cesarean section preformed either during maternal cardiac arrest or during impending maternal cardiac arrest the primary goal of which is to increase the chance of successfully resuscitating the mother and, potentially, improving fetal survival.

The pregnant patient with nausea and vomiting is something most providers want to avoid. A wide range of conditions can cause these symptoms in the pregnant patient, and these conditions can range from the benign morning sickness to life-threatening preeclampsia and acute fatty liver of pregnancy. What can you do to manage these patients while diagnosing severe disease?