Maternal sepsis on the postnatal ward — resuscitation station

Station brief

Format. Resuscitation station, 12 minutes, run against a clock. You are the obstetric registrar on the postnatal ward. The assessor runs the timeline, plays the midwife and the anaesthetist, and challenges your decisions on antibiotics, fluids, vasopressors and source control. ^[1][5]

Candidate instruction. Take charge of the resuscitation of a woman in postpartum septic shock. Verbalise your recognition, your bundle steps with drug names and doses, your source-control decision, and your escalation to intensive care. You will be challenged on antibiotic timing and on the qSOFA-reassurance trap; the assessor is testing whether you hold the line on the one-hour rule.^[1][15]