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Updated and adapted for Australia and New Zealand, offering course guidance for the multi-professional management of obstetric emergencies.
List of contents
1. Team working; 2. Basic life support and maternal collapse; 3. Maternal cardiac arrest and advanced life support; 4. Maternal anaesthetic emergencies; 5. Fetal surveillance in labour; 6. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia; 7. Maternal sepsis; 8. Major obstetric haemorrhage; 9. Maternal critical care; 10. Shoulder dystocia; 11. Cord prolapse; 12. Vaginal breech birth; 13. Twin birth; 14. Acute uterine inversion; 15. Newborn resuscitation and support of transition; 16. Measuring quality in maternity care.
About the author
Cathy Winter is the lead midwife for the PROMPT Maternity Foundation (PMF). She has been a senior labour ward midwife for over twenty years and is now the senior research midwife at North Bristol NHS Trust. For the past eighteen years, as part of a multi-professional team, she has been responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of local multi-professional obstetric emergencies training for all maternity staff at Southmead Hospital. As founder member of the PROMPT Maternity Foundation, Cathy has been integral to the development and dissemination of the PROMPT training package to many maternity units in the UK and across the world.Timothy Draycott is a Consultant Obstetrician at North Bristol NHS Trust and the obstetric research lead for the PROMPT Maternity Foundation. He has a research interest in patient safety, particularly multi-professional training, simulation, teamworking and quality improvement in maternity care. He has recently held a Health Foundation Improvement Science fellowship to investigate the effects of context on training and simulation.
Summary
Adapted for Australia and New Zealand, offering an in-depth understanding of the PROMPT Course, leading to the skilled multi-professional management of obstetric emergencies. Provides hands-on experience for effective team-working in simulated obstetric emergency situations. PROMPT training has significant impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes.
