Suspected amniotic fluid embolism pattern
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed32-year-old woman for suspected amniotic fluid embolism pattern recognition, coordinated ownership, reassessment, and active-risk handoff practice. About 7 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Activate coordinated qualified maternal, hemorrhage, newborn, communication, and dignity-centered response.
- Connect the birth clock, symptom order, cardiorespiratory state, bleeding, coagulation, newborn context, and whole person.
- Recognize a rapid maternal-collapse-and-coagulopathy pattern compatible with suspected amniotic fluid embolism without diagnostic closure.
- Review supplied cardiac, pulmonary, hemorrhage, coagulation, uterine, anesthetic, thrombotic, infectious, allergic, and competing-cause evidence.
- Review the fixed later breathing, circulation, bleeding, coagulation, and support report.
- Hand off hypoxemia, shock, coagulopathy, bleeding, arrest, procedure, newborn, family-support, and outcome risk.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Patient Safety and Quality Committee. Checklist for initial management of amniotic fluid embolism—Updated 2026. Pregnancy. 2026;2:e70364.
- Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine; Pacheco LD, Saade G, Hankins GDV, Clark SL. Amniotic fluid embolism: diagnosis and management. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016;215:B16-B24. PMID 26987420.
- Clark SL, Romero R, Dildy GA, et al. Proposed diagnostic criteria for the case definition of amniotic fluid embolism in research studies. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016;215:408-412. PMID 27372270.
- American Heart Association. 2025 Guidelines for CPR and ECC: Adult and Pediatric Special Circumstances of Resuscitation, section 19.4.
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.