December 2014—Here it was, the kind of massive postpartum hemorrhage case for which the team at Duke University Medical Center had spent months preparing. The multidisciplinary group had agreed on which laboratory tests would be done in such a case, determined which blood products would be delivered, and decided which members of the OB team would be sent racing to retrieve the potentially life-saving package.
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