Introduction

dr michael hofkamp is the director of obstetrical anesthesia at baylor scott in white memorial hospital and a clinical associate professor of anesthesiology. We're gonna start with a basic introduction and talk about the changes in maternal physiology when a woman becomes pregnant this is very high yield for boardsLots of questions come from this material and we're gonna go through it with mike alright so mike why don't we start with the cardiac system that's often tested in kind of one of the major things during pregnancy.