OBSTETRICS

Medical Simulation in the training of obstetric emergencies is an effective tool to improve obstetric knowledge, technical skills, team work and structured communication and is used in obstetric emergency skill training programs. The medical field of obstetrics (often referred to as OB&GYN from obstetrics and gynecology) deals with childbirth from pregnancy to birth and also the postpartum period. Obstetric simulation is used to practice delivery skills and emergency interventions in order to lower the mortality rate during birth. The scenario based obstetric training includes normal deliveries, common complications during delivery, as well as obstetric emergencies:

• Evaluation of the Baby’s position and presentation
• Diagnosis of complications
• Interventions for shoulder dystocia and breech deliveries
• Manual maneuvers like Ritgen or Leopold
• Cesarean sections
• Complete and incomplete placenta birth
• Medical interventions before, during, and after the delivery
• Pre- and post-natal care

3B Scientific® offers many different obstetric simulators and birthing phantoms as well as newborn manikins to practice neonatal resuscitation. All medical staff that is involved in obstetrics - doctors, nurses, and midwives - benefit from obstetric simulation as such, but also from training together as a team.

Trainees can develop core competencies in medical birthing interventions and team work with the 3B Scientific® birthing simulator SIMone™. It has been used around the globe for many years for specialty training in obstetrics and was recently updated to include 9 new birthing scenarios (like multipara, preeclampsia, HELPP syndrome, fever complications and more).

The new 3B Scientific® birthing simulator P90 PRO has been developed for obstetric training and demonstrations of manual maneuvers, cesarean sections as well as amniotomies (AROM, artificial rupture of membranes). Trainees will learn how to assess the fetal positions and presentations, how to manually assist normal and complicated births, and when to perform obstetric emergency interventions like a cesarean section.

Patient education also plays an integral part in obstetrics, and 3B Scientific® offer posters and pregnancy and birth models to help the patient better visualize the complex anatomy of delivery and the birthing process itself.