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A woman arrives after a home birth with a retained placenta and hypotension. After a D&C, her blood pressure deteriorates despite massive transfusion, while the team continues treating presumed postpartum hemorrhage. Hours later, surgery reveals a catastrophic source of bleeding: an aortic dissection. We examine whether anesthesia should have pushed harder for diagnosis and surgical intervention.

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After a nine-hour open AAA repair, a patient develops severe hand ischemia and ultimately loses his thumb and index finger. The lawsuit raises major questions about radial arterial lines, the Allen’s test, perioperative perfusion, Swan-Ganz monitoring, and whether any of those issues actually caused the injury.

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A stat C-section is called for a severely bradycardic fetus. The anesthesiologist, however, refuses to proceed until his backup arrives. Why? He believes he must remain available to supervise a CRNA in another case. We break down the staffing decision, the competing expert opinions, and the devastating outcome that followed.