Scottish Maternal Critical Care Network

Save the date - SMaCC symposium will be Monday 21st September 2026 in Perth. Keep an eye on website for details and registration.

Many thanks to ⁦@AbdnAnaes⁩ for hosting SMaCC educational meeting yesterday. Over 200 registered. Great idea, organisation and execution from our resident doctor committee - Paul Purvis, Anna Stout, Will Smy, Jenny Lockhart. Well done guys 👏

SMaCC symposium this Monday (19th Jan) - final few places available. Education for the whole MCC team.

Scottish Maternal Critical Care Network - Resident Symposium. Booking link below. eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-mat…

Delighted to announce first ever SMaCC online symposium - suitable for the whole multidisciplinary maternal critical care team - all welcome. Details below and at smaccnetwork.org

And that’s a wrap.. keep up to date with what’s going on with MCC at your own hospitals through local SMaCC representatives and through website. Lots of work ongoing with MCC follow up, we’ll keep you posted!!

And first prize in the oral competition went to Saskatoon Mason on Noise Levels in Obstetric Theatres. Well done to all poster submissions and oral presenters.

Second prize in the oral presentations went to Lucy Sexton on pregnancy testing in critical care.

And finally congratulations to our prize winners - Heather Broll for the poster competition. Reducing Blood Waste in Obstetric Theatres

⁦@MuddledDaddy⁩ ⁦talking about support and advocacy of ⁦@MummysStar⁩ for women with cancer through pregnancy and beyond #inspirational

Afternoon session #scottishmcc24 ⁦incredibly moving and powerful talk from @Heather_Law1⁩ ♥️ lived experience of MCC. And then Dr Lisa Hinton highlighting her MCC lived experience project - find on Hexi (prev HeathTalk).

Thank you to our trade sponsors and ⁦@DrGrays_Elgin⁩ @Ed_CritCare_On⁩ and SICSAG for sharing the day with us

Perth Concert Hall full of the MCC team today - midwives, obstetricians, anaesthetists, critical care nurses and doctors. Working together to get good outcomes @lesharkey1⁩ and ⁦@ScotPerinatal⁩ obstetric lead Tara Fairley #scottishmcc24 #mdt

⁦Prof Rachel Kearns @rjharrison79⁩ talking us through her landmark study demonstrating significant reduction in severe maternal morbidity in women with epidurals through labour - ? cause. Package of care, ability to intervene, alleviation of pain. #scottishmcc24

And remembering the amazing and much missed Prof Fiona Denison who was so involved in the project from the start ♥️

⁦@ICULone⁩ talking us through Scottish dataset of obstetric critical care admissions - long term outcomes in the first year: increased mortality and increased readmissions. Prevent/mitigate the morbidity place and then support post icu discharge. #scottishmcc24

Special mention of HSV infection in pregnancy - abdo pain, fever and transaminitis - consider HSV.

Masterclass on liver disease from ⁦@TasPirani⁩ - complex patients who need specialist input and wide ranging MDT #scottishmcc24

Great talk from Ian Scott (Aberdeen ECMO). Referral criteria same as non pregnant population, treat same as non pregnant and crucially deliver for fetal not maternal reasons. Delivery doesn’t always make things better. #scottishmcc24

Scottish Maternal Critical Care symposium is go!! First session - ECMO and liver the focus #scottishmcc24