Critical Care Teaching Module BETA
This version is not a static quiz. Each case evolves over time. The learner must choose actions, interpret changing vitals and labs, avoid plausible harm traps, decide when delivery is part of maternal stabilization, and receive a scored debrief.
10 evolving casesEndocrineNeurologicCardiomyopathyTTP / APSCoagulopathyRespiratory failureAFE
How scoring works
- Critical actions must be selected to pass the phase.
- Helpful actions add points but are not enough alone.
- Harm actions subtract points and trigger a board-trap debrief.
- Time progression shows deterioration if key actions are missed.
Design goal: replace easy diagnosis recognition with management under uncertainty.
Case Library
Simulator
Select a case from the library to begin. Teaching mode gives immediate phase feedback. Exam mode hides feedback until the end.
Reference Framework
Clinical sources used to frame cases
- SMFM Consult Series #73: heart failure in pregnancy and postpartum. SMFM guidance
- SMFM Clinical Guideline #9: amniotic fluid embolism, reaffirmed 2024. SMFM guidance
- ACOG Practice Bulletin: Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia. PubMed
- ACOG Practice Bulletin: Postpartum Hemorrhage. PubMed
- WOMAN Trial: tranexamic acid for postpartum hemorrhage. PubMed
- Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2021. PubMed
- ACOG Practice Bulletin: Thromboembolism in Pregnancy. ACOG
- ASH guidance and reviews on APS, ITP, and pregnancy-associated thrombocytopenia. Blood review
Educational limitation
This simulator is for clinical reasoning practice. It does not replace institutional protocols, current guidelines, maternal ICU consultation, anesthesia, cardiology, hematology, neurology, neonatology, or real-time bedside judgment.