Acute fetal bradycardia on labour ward — emergency management station

Station brief

Format. Emergency management station, approximately 12 minutes. You are the obstetric registrar. A midwife is with you, an anaesthetist is available, and the consultant has been called and is 12 minutes away. The assessor runs the clock and feeds new observations. ^[2][1]

Candidate instruction. Lead the management of an acute intrapartum fetal bradycardia in a woman labouring after previous caesarean. Verbalise your actions, your drug orders with doses, your differential, your timings, and your communication with the woman, her partner and the team. ^[2][5]