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Chapter 43 - Simulation Training for Obstetric Emergencies

from Section 9 - Setting-Up Skills and Drills Training in Maternity Services and Reducing Avoidable Harm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2021

By
Polly Hughes
Edited by
Edwin Chandraharan  and
Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
Edwin Chandraharan
Affiliation:
St George's University of London
Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
Affiliation:
St George's University of London
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Summary

The use of simulation is a method of training for both individuals and teams. It allows learners to acquire skills in a non-threatening environment while avoiding harm to patients. It can be harnessed as a tool for learning a new skill or procedure through to exposing teams of experienced personnel to an innovative approach to develop or consolidate technical and non-technical skills incorporating teamwork skills.

Simulation-based training provides experiential opportunities for development of team cognition that may build upon, or even replace actual clinical experience, this being particularly beneficial for critical clinical incidents scenarios that are fortunately rare or uncommon within obstetrics, for example maternal cardiac arrest, amniotic fluid embolism and eclampsia as well as rehearsal for use of protocols, for example sepsis care bundles.

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Obstetric and Intrapartum Emergencies
A Practical Guide to Management
 , pp. 311 - 314
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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