Firefighter/Flight Paramedic Geisinger Life Flight, Syracuse (NY) Fire Department McDonough, New York
Disclosure(s):
Kenneth G. Thompson, EMT-P, CCEMT-P, FP-C: No financial relationships to disclose
Students will learn about the preparation and basic maneuvers for delivering an infant, understand concepts of fetal presentation, cardinal movements of labor, and steps to take in a normal, uncomplicated out-of-hospital delivery. Students will learn what to do when there is a nuchal cord, how to suction meconium, how to clamp and cut the umbilical cord, placental delivery, management of postpartum hemorrhage and shoulder dystocia, breech delivery, prolapsed cord and fetal head entrapment.
Learning Objectives:
The most important thing you should take away from this course is that you can make a tremendous difference in patient outcome through a series of straightforward actions.
manage the precipitous out-of-hospital childbirth.
List complications associated with the precipitous out-of-hospital childbirth.