Maternal cardiac arrest: coordinated care
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed32-year-old woman for maternal cardiac arrest recognition, pregnancy-specific coordination, minute-4 reassessment, and active-risk handoff practice. About 7 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Activate the prepared pregnancy cardiac-arrest response and arrest clock now.
- Connect the arrest clock, responsiveness, breathing, pulse, rhythm, pregnancy context, and whole person.
- Review supplied pregnancy modifications and airway-priority boundaries.
- Review open causes plus delivery, newborn, and hemorrhage readiness.
- Review the fixed minute-4 active-resuscitation and delivery-readiness report.
- Hand off active arrest, cause, procedure, hemorrhage, newborn, family-support, and outcome risk.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- American Heart Association. 2025 Guidelines for CPR and ECC: Adult and Pediatric Special Circumstances of Resuscitation, section 19.3.
- American Heart Association. Cardiac Arrest in Pregnancy Algorithm. 2025.
- Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. Cardiac Conditions in Obstetric Care Patient Safety Bundle. 2025.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.