#122 – Physiologic Changes in Pregnancy with Joe Navarrete

About this episode

Joe Navarrete discusses the physiologic changes in pregnancy and their implications for anesthesia management.

This episode is part of a three-part series on titled “The Pressure is on: Enhancing Anesthesia Care for Parturients with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.” In this first installment, Joe Navarrete, a third-year student registered nurse anesthetist (SRNA) at the Yale New Haven Hospital School of Nurse Anesthesia , delivers a high-yield, system-by-system breakdown of the expected physiologic changes of pregnancy. Part 2 will be #123 – Pathophysiology of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy with David Barksdale Part 3 will be #124 – How to Manage Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy with Isabella Sosa In this episode, Joe Navarrete guides listeners through changes in the respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal, endocrine, musculoskeletal, nervous, hematologic, and cardiovascular systems, with an emphasis on how these changes impact anesthetic management. Joe covers pertinent topics including airway considerations, anesthetic requirements, dilutional anemia, hypercoagulability, neuraxial anesthesia, cardiac output, and fluid shifts throughout pregnancy. The episode concludes with a brief recap of clinical pearls for anesthesia providers to remember when caring for…

People in this episode

Host: Jon Lowrance

Guest: Joe Navarrete

Topics covered

• physiologic changes in pregnancy
• anesthesia management
• hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
• maternal physiology
• clinical pearls for anesthesia providers

Keywords

• pregnancy
• anesthesia
• physiology
• hypertensive disorders
• clinical pearls
• SRNA
• CRNA

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale New Haven Hospital School of Nurse Anesthesia

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