Obstetric medicine is a time sensitive, unpredictable challenge for patients and practitioners. Skillsets unique to obstetric practice focus on the timely management of common emergency scenarios that are relatively unique to this patient population. In line with international practices, obstetric medicine is highly centralised in Dublin.1,2 However, patients present as unscheduled emergencies to settings that do not routinely provide obstetric care. In our hospital, these emergency presentations highlighted patient safety issues,which we addressed in this Quality Improvement (QI) project
In Tallaght University Hospital (TUH), several presentations of obstetric patients in extremis highlighted a critical medication safety issue. Consider the scenario presented on the right.
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