This week's episode is a very special one. To honor AFE Awareness week, Kayleigh welcome's her very own OB that handled her AFE episode. Dr. Saberin moved into action very quickly when she recognized that Kayleigh was having an AFE. Her number one priority was to get Cal out via an emergency cesarian-section to help save Cal and better the chances of Kayleigh's survival.
On this episode you will hear:
- Dr. Saberin's memory of Kayleigh's birth experience and AFE
- STAT C-Section
- mass transfusion protocol
- Kayleigh being resuscitated by cardiac care
- remembering the moment that Cal was born and him needing resuscitation
- shifting focus to Kayleigh as soon as possible to help her survive
- trauma surgeon took over
- ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
- embolized uterine arteries
- life-saving emergency hysterectomy
- impello?
- Dr. Saberin wishing she had taken a day off
- Kayleigh being transferred
- Kayleigh's first memories and recalling her lost memories
- gratitude as a healing and processing concept
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