Collapse on the postnatal ward — maternal resuscitation station

Station brief

Format. Emergency resuscitation station, 12 minutes, run against a clock. You are the obstetric registrar and the first doctor on scene. The assessor runs the timeline, plays the arriving anaesthetist and feeds you observations and laboratory results at fixed intervals. ^[3][1]

Candidate instruction. Lead the resuscitation of a collapsed pregnant woman of uncertain cause. Verbalise every action, every drug with its dose and route, every escalation trigger and every piece of communication. Two iatrogenic causes are in the room; the assessor is watching whether you find them. ^[1][4]