TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - The Functions of Emotion: Evolutionary and Social Perspectives
A1  - Shiota, Michelle N.
A1  - Pages, Erika B.
A1  - Bednarek, Paula H.
A2  - Schwartz, Rachel
A2  - Hall, Judith A.
A2  - Osterberg, Lars G.
PY  - 2021
T2  - Emotion in the Clinical Encounter
AB  - It  is  midnight,  and  you  are  on  a  labor  and  delivery  shift  that  will  last  until  7:00  am.  During  one  labor  the  baby’s  heart  rate  suddenly  drops,  and  stays  low.  The  mother  is  pushing  as  hard  as  she  can,  but  the  baby  is  still  too  high  to  reach  with  forceps  or  a  vacuum.  Anesthesia  and  neonatology  teams  are  called,  and  the  patient  is  moved  to  an  operating  room  for  an  emergency  cesarean  section.  The  baby  is  delivered,  but  appears  limp,  and  is  soon  taken  by  the  neonatology  team  to  another  room  while  the  obstetrics  team  manages  the  mother’s  bleeding  and  closes  the  uterine  incision.  Just  as  the  surgery  is  completed,  the  neonatology  team  returns  to  tell  the  other  providers  that  the  baby  could  not  be  resuscitated,  and  did  not  survive.  After  the  mother  wakes  and  has  had  some  time  to  recover,  the  parents  are  informed  of  their  baby’s  death.  After  talking  with  both  the  obstetrics  and  neonatology  teams,  the  heartbroken  parents  request  an  autopsy  investigating  why  the  baby  could  not  be  resuscitated.  It  is  now  1:00  in  the  morning,  with  six  more  hours  left  in  the  shift.  The  teams  meet  briefly  to  debrief  on  procedural  issues,  but  there  is  little  time  to  address  the  emotions  team  members  are  feeling  about  this  unexpected  loss.  Three  other  patients  are  still  in  labor,  and  will  need  care  in  the  hours  ahead.  
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PB  - McGraw Hill
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182526278
ER  -