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Identify at least three priority assessments that would have been beneficial to the assigned case study patient

At 25, Larissa Icemen was sweet but shy - the result, her mother-in-law Roberta Russette thought, of growing up in rough circumstances in Minneapolis's Native American community. At big gatherings, she often kept to herself, and at home, she focused on her kids. She was pregnant with her fourth child.

On the morning of Feb. 6, 2016, in her 38th week, her husband Landen took her to University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital for what they expected would be another smooth delivery. Soon after they arrived, Larissa began vomiting and went into cardiac arrest. Doctors delivered her healthy son by emergency C-section, then rushed her to another hospital, where she underwent surgery for an amniotic fluid embolism, a rare complication believed to occur when amniotic fluid or other fetal material - sometimes as tiny as a fingernail or a hair - enters the mother's bloodstream, triggering a massive allergic-like response.

The embolism caused Larissa's heart to stop several times, depriving her brain of oxygen. When her condition stabilized, she was transferred to a nursing home. She couldn't walk or talk, but she responded to her caregivers and family enough to give them hope. "She would have these really fighting moments... these bright spots," Roberta said. "Then she would slip. All of a sudden she would get an infection out of nowhere." She languished for almost five months. "We didn't speak about it," Roberta said. "We just knew she wasn't going to fight anymore."