
Episode 43: Maternal Physiology with Mike Hofkamp
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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The Role of Cardiovascular Resistance in Pregnancy
You're going to get an exaggerated splitting of the mitral tricuspic components in pregnancy. Your blood pressure is going to be a little lower and another route of low resistance for the blood to flow so you have less overall systemic vascular resistance. The q r s is going to shift towards the left of the end do the displacement of the diaphragm by 12 weeks gestation. By twelve weeks pregnant, there's been a fifty percent increase in karak mass term. At turn ninety four percent patients are going to have tricuspid and pl and pla monica vegetation.
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