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Podcast: Anesthesia Patient Safety Podcast
Episode: #277 Transforming Maternal Care: Faster Sepsis Recognition, Smarter Hemorrhage Response, and Safer VTE Prevention
Description: Welcome back to our 2025 Stoelting Conference Podcast Series. Fever isn’t the fail-safe it’s made out to be—especially in pregnancy. We walk through the subtle ways maternal sepsis hides in plain sight, why a quarter of those who died never had a fever, and how early warning tools, rapid antibiotics, and source control change the odds. From there, we pivot to maternal hemorrhage and show how quantifying blood loss with calibrated drapes plus a treatment bundle outperforms the old habit of visual estimation. We dig into TXA timing for high‑risk cesarean patients, the evidence gaps on t...