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Strategies for Patient Safety

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The labor and delivery unit was unusually busy, and the resident was especially concerned about two of the patients he was watching closely. Patient A with a vertex/vertex twin pregnancy at 37 weeks of gestation had been in labor for 26 h. Patient B was full term with a Category 2 fetal heart tracing and intermittent decelerations. The resident consulted his attending physician about Patient B’s fetal heart tracing, and it was decided that Patient B could be allowed to continue to labor with very close surveillance.

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  1. Universitätsklinikum Erlangen Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Erlangen, Germany

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    Gesine Hofinger

  3. Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

    Robert Simon

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St.Pierre, M., Hofinger, G., Simon, R. (2016). Strategies for Patient Safety. In: Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41427-0_15

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