Help! I Need Somebody! OB Emergency Notification

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Help! I Need Somebody! OB Emergency Notification

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Nan Ybarra, MBA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC , Labor & Delivery, Texas Children's Hospital Pavilion for Women, Houston, TX

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Professional Issues (PI), Women’s Health (WH)

Learning Objectives:
  • Discuss the advantages of utilizing a code team response in advent of obstetrical emergency.
  • Discuss advantages of cap code page team over individual pages or calling staff assist.
  • Describe advantages of employing a mass notification technology for maternal and neonatal outcomes.

    • Submission Description:
    Rapid and seamless care coordination of key team members in the advent of an obstetrical emergency is vital. The swift delivery of a fetus in distress or speedy response to correct a maternal coagulopathy can be the difference between a joyous event and a tragic one. The simultaneous notification and measured response to OB emergencies is akin to a code situation in that a team has a minutes to respond and begin life saving measures.

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