Midwives attending childbirth in homes and birth centers seldom encounter emergencies, but when crisis occurs, lives hang in the balance It is difficult to remain proficient in skills so seldom practiced, yet pregnant women rely on the expertise of the provider in an emergency. Birth Emergency Skills Training: Manual for Out-of-Hospital Midwives is the interface between the world of midwifery and the world of medicine. It carries the reader from the initial steps of intervention though definitive care, balancing a friendly tone and visual appeal with authoritative and clinically useful information. It is loaded with mnemonics and other memory aids, and is richly illustrated with the author's artful drawings and photography.

The award-wining Birth Emergency Skills Training is the interface between the world of midwifery and the world of medicine. BEST is designed to improve the midwife's ability to act decisively in an emergency and to see it though until resolved or until mother and baby are under physician management. Topics covered include pain and bleeding in pregnancy, hypertension, preterm labor, malpresentations, undiagnosed twins, abnormal fetal heart rate, neonatal resuscitation, shock, trauma, syncope and cardiac arrest.Richly illustrated with drawings and photographs by the author.