The Critical Care Obstetrics Podcast
Your trusted resource for everything to do with high-risk and critical care obstetrics. Our experienced, interprofessional team shares insights from years of practice, simulation, and team training—making complex topics simple and easy to understand. Sometimes it’s just us, sometimes it’s guests, and sometimes it’s case reviews—always with the goal of helping you provide the best care. Thanks for listening!
Episodes
98 episodes
From Nurse to Patient: A Unique Perspective
In this episode, Stephanie Martin and Suzanne McMurtry Baird speak with Nicolette Lewis, a labor and delivery nurse who shares her harrowing experience of nearly dying during childbirth due to a ruptured splenic artery aneurysm. Nicolette discu...
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Lessons Learned from a Sepsis Case: Conflict Resolution
In this episode of the Critical Care Obstetrics podcast, hosts Stephanie Martin, Suzanne Baird, and Julie Arafeh discuss a complex case involving a postpartum patient experiencing sepsis. They emphasize the importance of clear communication, ad...
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59:53
Cesarean Section is Major Abdominal Surgery
Cesarean Delivery: Major Abdominal SurgeryWelcome back to The Critical Care Obstetrics Podcast with hosts Suzanne McMurtry Baird (Nursing Director) and Stephanie Martin (Medical Director) of Clinical Concept...
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33:22
Rural Care, Real Challenges: Telehealth & Critical Obstetrics
In this episode of The Critical Care Obstetrics Podcast, Dr. Stephanie Martin sits down with Dr. Lexi Hill, an MFM specialist delivering high-risk pregnancy care via Telehealth to rural communities across the country.They discuss:✅ ...
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Season 3
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Episode 55
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33:11
Acute Anxiety in Obstetrics
In this episode Stephanie and Suzanne discuss acute onset of anxiety in an OB patient. They will also talk about possible pathology of anxiety and the possibility as a warning sign of compromise.
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Season 3
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Episode 54
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25:13
Listener Q&A Part 4: ARDS and Cardiomyopathy
In this episode, Julie, Suzanne, and Stephanie answer the listeners' questions regarding acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and Cardiomyopathy. These 2 diagnoses can appear with similar symptoms.
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Season 3
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Episode 53
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45:16
Listener Questions Part 3: AFE versus Pulmonary Embolus
In this episode, Julie, Stephanie, and Suzanne answer the listeners question of how to differentiate between signs, symptoms, and diagnosis of an AFE v. a PE
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Season 3
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Episode 52
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42:41
Communication in Obstetric Emergencies
Julie Arafeh and Dr. Stephanie Martin discuss 3 commonly encountered issues with communication during obstetric emergencies.
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Season 3
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Episode 51
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34:43
Role of Doula in High-Risk Pregnancies: Interview with HeHe Stewart
In this episode Stephanie talks with HeHe Stewart, a Birth Doula aiming to help women avoid birth trauma & prepare for a confident and informed hospital birth. She has her own podcast The Birth Lounge and an active social media presence edu...
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Season 3
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Episode 50
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51:05
Listener Q and A: Hypertensive Disorders
Julie, Stephanie and Suzanne address listener questions posted about hypertensive disorders. We address questions about treatment of refractory severe hypertension, medication protocols, use of magnesium and delivery timing questions.
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Season 3
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Episode 49
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51:32
Listener Q and A: Obstetric Hemorrhage
Julie, Stephanie and Suzanne address listener questions posted about obstetric hemorrhage. We talk about transfusion thresholds, vital signs in hemorrhage, QBL, postpartum monitoring and many other aspects of hemorrhage management and recogniti...
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Season 3
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Episode 48
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44:47
Debrief: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy or Preeclampsia with Severe Features
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Season 3
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Episode 47
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42:03
Diagnostic Dilemma: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy or Preeclampsia with Severe Features
https://professional.heart.org/en/education/role-of-cardiovas...
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Season 3
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Episode 46
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32:36
Obstetrics Scope of Service
In this episode, Julie Arafeh and Suzanne McMurtry Baird discuss scope of services for obstetrics. A scope of services outlines the patients you will care for and those who would be transferred or transported to a higher level of care. This inf...
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Season 3
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Episode 45
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40:44
Eclampsia: What's Your Management Plan?
In this episode, Suzanne and Stephanie talk about how to be prepared and manage an eclamptic patient. We give 3 scenarios of eclampsia to stimulate thought about where and how you would manage.
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Season 3
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Episode 43
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41:16
Would You Have Sent this Patient Home? Interview with a Sepsis Survivor and Advocate.
Dr Stephanie Martin talks with Andrea, a patient, survivor of postpartum septic shock and advocate. Hear her incredible story and decide how you would have handled things differently.
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Season 3
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Episode 42
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50:25
Vital Signs are Vital: Temperature
In the last vital signs are vital series, Dr. Stephanie Martin and Suzanne McMurtry Baird discuss maternal temperature. Understand the WHY and conditions of hypothermia and hyperthermia.
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Season 3
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Episode 41
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33:08
Vital Signs are Vital: SpO2
Dr. Stephanie Martin and Suzanne McMurtry Baird discuss the technology of pulse oximetry. Understand the WHY of SpO2 values.
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Season 3
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Episode 40
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26:44
Vital Signs are Vital: Respiratory Rate
In this episode, Dr. Stephanie Martin and Dr. Suzanne McMurtry Baird discuss the importance of taking a respiratory rate and understanding the WHY of a low or high rate.
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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33:50
Vital Signs are Vital: Blood Pressure
This is the 2nd podcast in our series on Vital Signs are Vital. Tune in to hear Dr. Stephanie Martin and Dr. Suzanne McMurtry Baird discussing blood pressure. We will go over hypotension, hypertension, and understanding the WHY.
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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31:46
Vital Signs are Vital: Heart Rate
This is the first episode in our series "Vital Signs are Vital". In this episode we discuss the significance of heart rate in the assessment of vital signs.
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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29:33