Multidisciplinary rescue strategy saves mother with severe heart failure during emergency cesarean delivery

Mother and premature neonate (2.29 kg) both survived critical peripartum period; neonate required NICU care but discharged at day 12 with appropriate growth.

At the intersection of obstetric urgency and cardiac catastrophe, a 36-year-old woman carrying a near-term child arrived at a tertiary hospital with a heart functioning at a quarter of its capacity, a clot in her atrium, and a pulse racing toward collapse. What followed was not a single heroic act but a carefully orchestrated convergence of disciplines—each decision weighted against the possibility that the next might be the last available. That both mother and child left the hospital twelve days later speaks less to the triumph of technology than to the quiet power of preparation, humility be

Multidisciplinary rescue strategy saves mother with severe heart failure during emergency cesarean delivery

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