Women anesthesiologists can experience barriers and bias in the workplace, which varies in nature across their career and can negatively hinder professional development.• Mitigation of these barriers and discrimination can be achieved through: (1) addressing individual bias, (2) closing the knowledge gap on the scope of bias, (3) deliberate representation, (4) strengthening professional networks, and(5) organized efforts to create policies that address gender inequity in the workplace. • Women in anesthesiology is one example of several organized initiatives and programs that promote gender equity for women anesthesiologists of all identities.
Left ventricular noncompaction is a rare congenital cardiomyopathy that is an arrest in the normal process of cardiac compaction, resulting in the development of multiple prominent trabeculations in the left ventricle. We report a case of a parturient with left ventricular noncompaction causing decompensated heart failure who underwent cesarean delivery that was complicated by an acute pulmonary hypertensive crisis.
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