Category 1 caesarean at 02:40 — emergency decision and escalation station

Station brief

Format. Emergency management and communication station, approximately 12 minutes. A midwife and an anaesthetist are with you. The assessor runs the clock and feeds new information. Verbalise everything: your category, your reasoning, your orders and your escalation. ^[1]

Candidate instruction. Lead the response to a prolonged fetal bradycardia when the only obstetric theatre is occupied by another woman's caesarean. State your urgency category and defend it, direct intrauterine resuscitation, resolve the resource conflict explicitly, and hand over to the consultant. ^[1][4]