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Podcast: Anesthesia Patient Safety Podcast
Episode: #280 Speak Up To Save Lives
Description: What if the biggest risks in maternal care are not just clinical, but cultural? We dig into the hard truth that speaking up can feel risky, pain during cesarean is often underestimated, and rare obstetric crises can overwhelm memory. From there, we chart a path toward safer births with practical tools that any team can use: psychological safety to unlock communication, structured pre‑briefs and rapid debriefs, and cognitive aids that turn chaos into coordinated action.We walk through the lived reality of intraoperative pain—why negative skin tests don’t guarantee visceral coverage, how fear of genera...