Postpartum severe preeclampsia: listen, connect, escalate
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed32-year-old woman for postpartum severe preeclampsia recognition, coordinated ownership, reassessment, and handoff practice. About 7 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Connect the postpartum clock, symptoms, pressure, organs, newborn context, and whole person.
- Recognize persistent severe postpartum hypertension and the supplied presumptive preeclampsia pattern without waiting for proteinuria.
- Activate the severe-hypertension protocol, qualified obstetric response, and patient-centered support now.
- Review supplied neurologic, pulmonary, hematologic, renal, hepatic, medication, and competing-cause evidence.
- Review the fixed later pressure, symptom, organ, and support report.
- Hand off recurrent pressure, seizure, stroke, pulmonary, HELLP, renal, newborn, follow-up, and outcome risk.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Practice Bulletin No. 222: Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia. 2020; reaffirmed 2026.
- Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health. Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy Patient Safety Bundle. Revised 2022.
- Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Quality metric for timely postpartum follow-up after severe hypertension. 2022; reaffirmed 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.