Management of Emergency Situations in Childbirth

Health professionals and Medicine and Nursing students from Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, UNEB, UCsal, FTC, Unijorge, Unime, Unirb, Unifacs and São Salvador met on September 22, at the Cabula Academic Unit, to participate in the seminar “Managing Emergency Situations in Childbirth”.

The program was presented by professionals from the Obstare Group at the invitation of the League of Emergency in Nursing (L2E), being a multidisciplinary event focused on Nursing and Medicine courses, which brought to the participants a new perspective on obstetric emergencies. 

The Obstare Group is a team composed of two obstetricians, Dr. Rodrigo Lemos and Dr. Adriana Monteiro, in addition to two obstetric nurses and doulas, Nurse Júlia Falcão and Nurse Patrícia Sousa. The team's main objective is to humanize births, aiming at the well-being of women and newborns.

According to Fernanda Carvalho, coordinating director of L2E, the league's work is divided into modules and, in September, the proposed theme was obstetrics. "The goal of the league is that every Thursday a new topic is addressed and, in this event, we show the emergency situations during childbirth and how the professional should act in these specific cases." 

Mateus Costa, CEO of Liga L2E, points out that the program is important for participants because it shows emergency situations during childbirth and highlights the work of the league that is always seeking new knowledge and deepening a little more than what the academy offers. “We brought both an intra- and pre-hospital approach and all the apparatus that is performed, the maneuvers that can be performed and situations that can occur during the process, whether of high or low intensity. The work was carried out by the Obstare group, a group that we were already following and we extended the program to students from the Nursing and Medicine courses due to the volume of enrollments”.

Rodrigo Lemos, obstetrician at Obstare reports that he started working in the group about two years ago, reaffirming the humanization of childbirth. "Talking about emergency is important because we can work with humanized childbirth also in high-risk patients."
Adriana Monteiro, also an obstetrician at Obstare, explains that the group's work with academics is important to awaken future professionals to humanization. "Contact with students is fundamental for any movement to humanize childbirth, which is to change the way patients are conducted and our goal is to instruct students in the light of the most recent evidence on this topic."