A few weeks ago, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung got an emergency call to transfer a patient to the operating room. She’s a Maternal Fetal Medicine physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancy complications.
The patient was only 19 weeks pregnant and hemorrhaging fast.
“When she got to us and moved from stretcher to stretcher,” she says, “she lost 500 cc’s of blood in front of me in under two minutes.”
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