PROMPT Course Manual: North American Edition

The PROMPT (Practical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training) course covers the management of a range of obstetric emergencies. Subjects are presented in a variety of formats to stimulate the interest of participants, including interactive lectures, drills and workshops, to provide hands-on experience of practical skills and team-working in simulated obstetrics emergency situations - including training for communication in an emergency. The PROMPT course has been extensively tested and shown to be associated with improved clinical outcomes and reduced patient safety incidents. The key components of PROMPT training are that it is multi-professional and locally situated, with all members of the obstetric team being trained. This Course Manual has been adapted for North American training, reflecting the latest research and current clinical practice. The Course Manual is essential reading for course attendees but will also provide much useful information for any health professional wishing to understand more about the management of obstetric emergencies.

Foreword; Module 1. Teamworking (human factors); Module 2. Basic life support and maternal collapse; Module 3. Maternal cardiac arrest and advanced life support; Module 4. Maternal anesthetic emergencies; Module 5. Fetal monitoring in labor; Module 6. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia; Module 7. Maternal sepsi; Module 8. Major obstetric hemorrhage; Module 9. Shoulder dystocia; Module 10. Umbilical cord prolapse; Module 11. Vaginal breech birth; Module 12. Twin birth; Module 13. Acute uterine inversion; Module 14. Basic newborn resuscitation; Index.

Dr Carl Philip Weiner is the K. E. Krantz Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor of Integrative and Molecular Physiology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy. He is the Associate Director of the Institute for reproductive health and regenerative medicine and leads the Center for the Developmental origins of Health and Disease. Dr Weiner has spent his career in academic medicine and is dedicated to teaching, research, and clinical service.