You are working as an anaesthetist at a regional hospital. A major electrical fault has rendered all but one of your operating theatres unusable for the past 24 hours and an engineer is on site to fix the problem. Where possible, all emergencies are being diverted to other hospitals. In your one remaining theatre, a colleague is mid-way through a laparotomy for perforated appendicitis. You are called by the obstetrician to advise that a 32-year old patient at 33 weeks gestation has presented to the emergency department with severe abdominal pain and foetal bradycardia. The obstetrician is concerned that the patient has suffered a uterine rupture and needs to go to theatre urgently.
How would you approach this situation?
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