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!
The Critical Care Obstetrics Podcast
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 discusses the critical moments leading up to her emergency C-section, the challenges she faced during recovery, and how this experience has transformed her approach to nursing and patient care. The conversation emphasizes the importance of listening to patients, recognizing signs of distress, and the impact of trauma on both patients and healthcare providers.
The experts at Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics pool their decades of experience caring for critically ill pregnant women to discuss the challenges encountered in caring for these vulnerable women.
Dr Stephanie Martin is the Medical Director for Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics and a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist with expertise in critical care obstetrics.
Suzanne McMurtry Baird, DNP, RN is the Nursing Director for Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics with many years of experience caring for critically ill pregnant women.
Julie Arafeh, RN, MS is the Simulation Director for Clinical Concepts in Obstetrics and a leading expert in simulation.
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