Birth Emergency Skills Training: Manual for Out-Of-Hospital Midwives

We read it because we were having a home birth and wanted to be well informed of any crisis.

Concise and straight forward, this text has useful information without having to read lengthy chapters to obtain it.

Love

Extraneous code, absence of bullet points, and missing spaces between words made the book difficult to read at times, especially on important sections regarding pneumonics and need-to-be-memorized tables or lists. At times the organization of the book was confusing, not following a clear progression from one topic to another.At times, the author switches from directions for home birth midwife to Directions to EMT without appropriate signaling or recognition that CPMs and Licensed midwives in the United States do not carry intubation supplies and rely on emergency transport for fetal intubation. Perhaps CNMs practicing out of hospital are able to legally do this, as registered midwives in Canada are allowed as well.A CPM or LM might appreciate a book written on emergency skills by another LM or CPM rather than one so steeped in medical model training such as this one. The approach and mentality is very medical and therefore foreign to midwives trained to identify normal and escalate from there, whereas Thai book trains providers to look for pathology and de-escalate to determine that normal is presenting before them.

I found this book helpful. The chapters were easy to follow either for cover-to-cover study or for specific research on a topic. I also like the acronyms and other sneaky ways to remember information that you would need in an emergency.

Very detailed and not too "dumbed down". I am planning for a natural birth as well as to get my Certified Nurse Midwife license shortly afterward and this book has a ton of scenarios and detail about how to handle different situations and why.

A very well organized book covering the skills needed to evaluate and deal with real emergencies....

Great

In the event that you are a midwife and have out of hospital births, this is a definite must have book. It covers what is the normal and how to plan for the abnormal.

The skills and care advice in this book are easily transferable to UK practice. It also provides the reader with an over view of the modification of care given in the home environment.

Very practical, with easy to remember step by step instructions.