yesterday i was on l&d today when we got a call from postpartum that one of the patients who had delivered earlier had an extremely low bp. i went over after our resident, thinking pp hemorrhage, and that i would help bring the pt back to our recovery room. she was unresponsive, drooling, pupils fixed. we put a pulse ox on; it was 72%. pulse was irregular. the she just flatlined. the resident froze. i said "start cpr". she just froze, so i started chest compressions and yelled "call a code". after about a minute, we got a heart rate, but she never breathed again. it was determined that she had a massive undiagnosed brain tumor that either herniated or bled when she started pushing. she had complained of a headache, but lots of women do.
she has other children and a husband besides her newborn. they took her off life support edited and she died.
this is the first adult i've ever done chest compressions on. i am very sad about all this.
please keep this family in your prayers. her initials are edited
