First Responder EMS Curriculum for Training Centers in Eurasia

Sample Case Scenario – Childbirth and ChildrenThe following example demonstrates how to create a case scenario that can be used to teachstudents the practical skills required in this lab. It can also be used to evaluate the student onthese skills. The instructor is encouraged to create more scenarios to illustrate these teachingpoints, and to design them in a way that is most applicable to the target audience of students.One of your classmates seemed to get nauseated every morning. Then she started togain a lot of weight. She stopped drinking alcohol, but started eating a lot of chocolate.Suddenly, during the final exam, it becomes clear what these strange changes mean. Shefeels contractions, has a rush of fluid, finishes her final exam, and announces that she isin active labor. There is a blizzard outside and no hospital for hundreds of kilometers. Youneed to help deliver the baby. How do you do it?• Demonstrate the steps to assist in the normal cephalic delivery.• Demonstrate necessary care procedures of the fetus as the head appears.Once the baby is delivered, how do you deliver the placenta?• Attend to the steps in the delivery of the placenta.How do you care for the mother after delivery?• Demonstrate the post-delivery care of the mother.How do you assess the newborn and care for it?• Demonstrate the assessment and care of the newborn.How do you suction an infant? Open the airway? Remove a foreign body? Ventilate aninfant or child if necessary?• Demonstrate the techniques of opening the airway of an infant or child.• Demonstrate the techniques of suctioning an infant or child.• Demonstrate the techniques for removing a foreign body airway obstruction in an infantor child.• Demonstrate how to ventilate infants and children.• Demonstrate the assessment of the infant and child.First Responder EMS Curriculum/AIHA, July 2002 323