ABSTRACT

This scenario-based chapter provides opportunities to apply knowledge of maternal physiology, as well as skills gained from studying the Obstetric Life Support Manual. The first scenario is focuses on a patient, who is 22-year-old person involved in a head-on collision with a tree as an unrestrained driver. The second scenario is about a patient, who is a 38-year-old gravida 2, para 1 at 39 weeks gestation, admitted in active labor with cervical dilation at 6 cm. The Third scenario describes about a person, who is about 20 years of age lying on the floor and hear an infant wailing in the crib. The Fourth scenario explains about a person, who is 28-year-old presents to the ED of a community hospital complaining of a severe headache and saying they gave birth 6 days ago to their first full-term baby after an uncomplicated pregnancy.