The First Principles of Pre-eclampsia that can get you through Obs and Gynae: placental dysfunction, hypertension, and why do they call it PET?

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Recorded 11 April 2022 Co-hosts: JT Yeung, Adian Izwan, Jason D’Silva, Daniel Bontempo. If you have any ideas or feedback, comment on this Notion document, or shoot us an email at [email protected]

=== Timestamps ===

(01:15) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy

(02:57) Hypertension summarized

(03:12) History of pre-eclampsia

(05:40) First principle - placental dysfunction

(08:08) Second principle - MORE hypertension

(10:27) Third principle – HELLP (me) syndrome

(12:28) Clinical features

(18:25) Sphygmomanometry - manual vs electronic?

(19:35) Quantifying hypertension

(21:19) Assessing proteinuria

(22:45) Complications

(24:36) Management

(25:33) Auscultating the foetal heart beat

(27:46) HMNL

(29:42) Summary

(31:15) Fact checks