High risk pregnancy unit

Fyreflie · Jun 19, 2012

We do about 7000 a year as well--at least that's what they're projecting this next year! We send all of our super high risk patients to the level 3 hospital (under 32 weeks when possible, as we're a level 2 facility) but we do have a 5-8 bed ante partum unit that houses our previas, PPROMs at any gestation if they're not labouring, high BPs, unstable diabetics or moms with chronic pain issues. It's pretty interesting dealing with some of their medical issues because we don't see them every day!

What's more common to see on a level 3 unit?

Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP · Jun 20, 2012

We have a level 3 unit as well. We keep placental abnormalities - vasa previa, partial abruption, complete previa, etc. Preterm labor at any gestation, PPROMs, r/o pre-E (and some of them are pretty early ), and high-order multiples. Pretty much anyone who is pregnant and has a problem, we keep them.

klone, MSN, RN · Jun 20, 2012

I work in an OB unit that does high-risk antepartum. I think we do around 5000-6000 births/year, and we get women from 3-4 states all around us. We take EVERYTHING, and I've seen some crazy stuff. We have a level 3 NICU, and between our NICU and the Children's Hospital that's right next door that we're affiliated with, we see everything, mother AND baby (ECMO, CDH, hypoplastic left heart, severe HIE). We have a 15 bed A/P unit, 5 high-risk L&D beds, a 7-bed low-risk unit, (midwifery patients mostly), 22 postpartum beds, and a 40-bed NICU.

DebCRNBSN · Jun 22, 2012

We have patients that have had fetal surgery at the Children's Hospital in our city. Other than that we have any patient who is pregnant with an pregnancy issue or an medical issue. They just need to be pregnant to be on our unit. Some of our patients are with us maybe 24 hours and others can be there for months.