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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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It started with abdominal pain and ended with a medical helicopter ride... and a detour in the middle at the airport.
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0:00.0 | It's story time and this time it is a story about how a pregnant patient ended up getting a medical helicopter ride. |
0:14.9 | Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast. |
0:19.5 | I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankin's a board certified OBGYN, who's been in |
0:23.9 | practice for nearly 15 years. I've had the privilege of helping over 1,000 babies into this world, |
0:30.7 | and I'm here to help you be calm, confident, and empowered to have a beautiful pregnancy and |
0:37.1 | birth. Quick note, this podcast is for |
0:39.5 | educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. Check out the full disclaimer |
0:45.3 | at Dr. Nicole Rankins.com forward slash disclaimer. Now let's get to it. |
1:03.1 | Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast, a shorty episode, whether this is your first time listening or you have been here before. You know I appreciate you spending some |
1:08.6 | time with me today. So in these short episodes, I like to share |
1:12.2 | little tidbits, little stories, and this one is a story about how a pregnant patient ended up |
1:19.0 | getting a medical helicopter ride. So here's what happened. I'm at work. I get a call from an |
1:25.9 | emergency department about them wanting to transfer a |
1:29.9 | patient. This particular patient was in her third trimester, but she was preterm, preterm meaning less |
1:36.1 | than 37 weeks, and she was having abdominal pain, and the emergency department doctor was concerned |
1:43.2 | that it could be contractions. |
1:45.2 | However, this emergency department was at a hospital where they didn't have a labor and delivery unit. |
1:54.5 | So there was no ability to monitor her and see if she was having contractions, |
2:00.4 | no ability to monitor the baby's heart |
2:03.3 | rate or anything like that, because again, no labor and delivery unit. So how did the patient |
2:08.2 | get to this hospital with no labor and delivery unit? Well, what had happened was she was at home |
2:15.9 | and she started experiencing pain. Her sister happened to be at home |
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