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Elizabeth Garcher

May 8, 2026

17:37
If we can select the right patients, optimize their pre-hospital resuscitation, and mobilize to ECPR, this is going to be the biggest technology to hit cardiac arrest since the arrival of Peter Safar.
17:52
[audience applauding] So, uh, my idea behind this was that I find that the biggest thing is errors of omission, that we're afraid because we're excellent clinicians to hurt a baby.
18:09
But in turn, we can hurt mom by doing that.
18:12
And so that was where this lecture, Pearls for the Patient That Has a Baby On Board, was born, right?And this is a picture of Sophia, who I've been told if ever I deliver a baby in our rotor, I'm never allowed back in her, so that's too bad.
18:27
So here's a little outline of where we're going with this lecture, but essentially we're gonna talk about a little bit of physiology of normal pregnancy just as a very brief introduction, and then my five main things that happen to go A, B, C, D, E, fortunately, that I think are markedly different in pregnancy and deserve a minute of a nod to.
18:51
And then last but not least, everything else is the same.
18:54
Do go for those medications, use the pressers, do treat blood pressures, and do treat pain for these patients.

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