Tasmanian Health Service medical staff from around the state are meeting at the Royal Hobart Hospital to continue development of a cutting edge training program that will ensure expectant Tasmanian mothers will continue receiving the best care possible.
The workshop that has already been rolled out across all regions of the State focuses on the management of emergencies during child birth.
It is delivered across all clinical disciplines involved in the care of mother and baby during the labour process, including midwives, anaesthetists, registrars, obstetricians, consultants, nurses and general practitioners.
This interdisciplinary approach ensures that the teams responsible for delivering babies in our hospitals are well prepared as a team to deal with any complications that occur during the birth of a baby.
Participants of today’s session also had the opportunity to exercise their skills and knowledge in a replicated real-life situation through the use of a state of the art birthing simulator.
The simulator is the first of its kind to arrive in Australia.
The sophisticated simulator, in the form of a dummy, is computerised and can be programmed to simulate a range of complications that might arise during the birthing process.
Today staff had the opportunity to respond to a breech birth.
To be able to practice this procedure with no risk to patient safety, but still maintain realistic circumstances in every other way is an extremely valuable training opportunity.
The day is a great opportunity for staff to gather together, share experiences and develop their knowledge in facilitating education in emergency obstetric management.
I commend the valuable work being done by the Tasmanian Health Service and wish all the mothers who’ll benefit from this training the very best with their new arrivals.
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