Pre-Vocational Anaesthetics & Critical Care Society

Obstetric Emergencies: Hypertension & Pre-eclampsia 🩺✨

High blood pressure during pregnancy demands quick action. Check out our breakdown of definitions, BP targets, and acute treatment options! 👇

💉🤰 𝗨𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 & 𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹𝘆𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 🤰💉
Uterotonics increase uterine tone and play a key role in preventing and treating postpartum haemorrhage, while tocolytics suppress uterine contractions to help manage preterm labour. Swipe to learn more ➡️

Transfusion Related Events - things you might think about in that mid-transfusion MET call!

🔬🩸 𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 🩸🔬
Before every red cell transfusion, compatibility testing helps identify the patient's blood group, detect clinically significant antibodies, and ensure compatible blood is selected.

How well do you understand group & holds, crossmatching and the 72-hour rule? Swipe to refresh your knowledge and learn more! ⚕️💉

Look into prothrombin products - what they are, how they're used, and their side effects.

🩹🩸 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘀 🩸🩹
Platelets are central to primary haemostasis, rapidly adhering, activating, and aggregating to form the initial platelet plug following vascular injury.

Swipe to learn more about how platelets are collected, stored, and transfused—as well as their indications, contraindications, and potential complications 💉⚕️

🩸 BLOOD PRODUCTS SERIES | Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP)

Not all blood products are created equal. While packed red blood cells restore oxygen-carrying capacity, Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) is used to replace clotting factors and help correct coagulopathy in the right clinical setting.

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🩸 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 🩸
Packed red blood cells are the cornerstone of transfusion therapy, restoring oxygen delivery in patients with major haemorrhage and severe anaemia.

From donation and processing to storage, compatibility, and specialised products, understanding how pRBCs are prepared and used is essential for safe perioperative and critical care practice 💉⚕

An overview of the different types of fluids we use, types & side effect profiles for your consideration when you pick which to administer to your patient. 💦

🩸💧 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗺𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘀: 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 💧🩸
Plasma is far more than water and electrolytes—it contains proteins that play critical roles in fluid balance, coagulation, immunity, and drug transport.

Albumin is the major contributor to oncotic pressure, helping keep fluid within the intravascular space and opposing the hydrostatic forces that drive oedema formation ⚖️

Understanding plasma proteins and Starling forces is fundamental to fluid physiology, perioperative medicine, and critical care 💉📚.