G6 - Extreme Case Studies in High Risk Obstetrics

Title: G6 - Extreme Case Studies in High Risk Obstetrics

Disciplines: Childbearing (CB), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  1. Specify the types and examine the causes of pregnancy complications that have undergone increases in the past few years.
  2. Integrate laboratory data, maternal physiologic assessment results and fetal surveillance evidence to estimate the adequacy of maternal oxygen transport and utilization.
  3. Formulate an intrapartum collaborative plan to include antihypertensive therapy for a patient with severe preeclampsia in hypertensive crisis.
Submission Description:
Labor and delivery nurses may be confronted with caring for high risk OB patients whose complications boarder on the scope of common practice. Such “Extremely High Risk” patients can present a quandary to even the most experienced clinician. This presentation will identify key strategies in the rapid assessment, stabilization and care of these challenging patients. The case studies include patients with severe preeclampsia, hypertensive crisis, and others as time permits.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014: 3:30 PM-4:30 PM
Coronado J (Disney Coronado Springs)
Presenting Author:
Carol J. Harvey, MS, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
Moderator:
Suzanne L. Ketchem, MSN, RNC-OB, CNS
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.