amniotic fluid embolism

No one else.

It's never even been reported before because I have found a lot of comfort like between the stroke community and the disability community and the AFE community.

It's been nice to connect with.

other survivors and I've gotten to meet.

because

it has a pretty high mortality rate.

I can only imagine what it's like to just feel so incredibly isolated because I definitely felt that way before I found the AFE community.

And even in my real life, I feel isolated in many ways because it's much harder for me to do normal everyday things.

I mean, I guess anything's possible, but I just think, like, let me, let me just tell you guys what happened.

So, she had, she had what's called an amniotic embolism, and that's, like, really, a really scary thing that I think that most people that are pregnant, like, always wonder in the back of their head if that's going to happen to them, and it's, like, super, super rare.

It doesn't happen that often, and what happens is, we were just talking about an embolism with, The word embolism just means that it's that it's something that's within the vascular system that's traveling so it could be Just blood that's traveling like a blood clot.

It's just something that shouldn't be there.

That's traveling so with the penis it was the hyaluronic acid with this is an amniotic embolism, so and the reason that they call it this is because they've you know after autopsy they've been able to see like fetal cells actually inside of the lungs of of women who've died from this so then the theory was like okay these cells are getting into the circulation and they're going to the lungs and causing a person to either their heart to stop or them to die right and then to go into dic which is a dangerous clotting and bleeding disorder so that's not really the case though when they started investigating how this actually happens it more seems like it's some kind of a weird rare allergic reaction almost like it almost acts like more of like an anaphylactic shock rather than like an embolism like how that guy just died okay right so regardless this happens to her it could either happen right before you have the baby during the baby after you have the baby like it just depends on what part Um, we actually did a high profile death dissection on, um, a nurse influencer.

Her name was Haley Akulu that died from this actually during childbirth and she was a social media influencer.

So it was kind of a big deal when that happened.

They can get profound cardiovascular collapse with shock and a consumptive coagulopathy.

The Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine describes an AFE as a sudden cardiovascular collapse situation severe coagulopathy and respiratory distress typically occurring during labor cesarean delivery or within 30 minutes of placental delivery there is a bj education article from 2018 on amniotic fluid embolism for your reference

great so memorize that triad i think if you wrote down that triad you probably passed the question wouldn't you yeah

cardiovascular collapse coagulopathy and respiratory distress

So you want to highlight that you recognise this is a critically unwell patient.

They are hemodynamically unstable with ongoing bleeding and there's potential for further deterioration.

And we know that AFE is associated with high mortality, so up to 20% mortality.

You want to call for help.