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

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.

About the Author:

Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg is a certified nurse-midwife and women's health nurse practitioner with a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked as an EMT, urban paramedic, maternity nurse, and certified nurse-midwife. Her midwifery experience includes training with a busy home-birth practice in the heart of Amish country. She has also authored The Midwife's Journal, Birth Log and Memory Book (Birth Guru Publications, 2009), Essentials of Prehospital Maternity Care (Prentice Hall, 2005), and Hoofprints in the Sand: Wild Horses of the Atlantic Coast (Eclipse Press, 2003). She is an artist and photographer, and has illustrated all of her books.