Obstetric Emergencies Field Guide for EMS & CCT Providers

A field-friendly obstetric emergency reference for ground and flight critical care transport providers.

The Code Blue Field Guide: Obstetric Emergencies is a digital clinical reference designed for high-risk, time-sensitive OB transports. Built for CCT, flight, EMS, paramedic, and nursing providers, this guide organizes the information clinicians need when caring for pregnant, laboring, or postpartum patients in transport and emergency settings.

Pregnancy changes everything: vital signs, airway risk, hemorrhage tolerance, lab interpretation, medication safety, positioning, fetal monitoring, and resuscitation priorities. This guide helps turn those differences into organized, transport-ready decision support.

Inside the Guide

You’ll find focused sections on:

• Pregnancy physiology and universal OB transport principles
• Pregnancy-specific lab values and red flags
• Fetal heart rate interpretation
• Left uterine displacement and aortocaval compression
• Airway management in pregnancy

• Maternal cardiac arrest and resuscitative hysterotomy principles
• Postpartum hemorrhage and the 4 T’s framework
• Uterotonic medication cautions and contraindications
• OB massive transfusion and fibrinogen targets
• Severe hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia, and HELLP
• Magnesium sulfate toxicity and calcium gluconate reversal
• Amniotic fluid embolism recognition and resuscitation
• Placental and intrapartum emergencies
• Cord prolapse, abruption, uterine rupture, shoulder dystocia, and precipitous delivery
• Transport monitoring plans and SBAR handoff templates

Best For

• Ground critical care transport providers
• Flight nurses
• Flight paramedics
• Paramedics
• Emergency nurses
• EMS educators
• CCT nurses
• Transport teams
• Rural EMS and hospital-based transport clinicians
• Clinicians who want a concise OB emergency review tool

Why This Guide Is Different

This guide is written for the realities of transport medicine. It prioritizes fast recognition, maternal stabilization, medication safety, monitoring targets, troubleshooting, and structured handoff. It is part of the Code Blue Field Guidesseries: practical, field-tested clinical references built for the moments that matter.

Digital Download

This is a digital PDF product. No physical product will be shipped.

After purchase, download the file and save it to your device for quick review, teaching, or clinical preparation.

Disclaimer

This product is intended for educational and reference use only. It does not replace local protocols, medical direction, institutional policy, scope of practice, or clinical judgment.