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Dealing with emergencies
Active Birth Pools give midwives safe, practical options for dealing with emergencies.
The evacuation a collapsed woman is potentially hazardous and poses risk of injury to mother and midwife.
If the need for an emergency evacuation arises the midwife should:
- summon help
- stabilise the mother
- turn the taps on to raise the water to rim level.
- The buoyancy of the water reduces the relative weight of the mother by approximately 33% making it easier to move her and effect safe evacuation.
- Midwives should float/move the mother onto a seat or support and hold her safely until help arrives.
Basics:
The mother should be screened to ensure that she meets the inclusion criteria prior to entering the birth pool.
- Continuous risk assessment is essential to reduce the incidence of emergencies in the pool.
- At the first sign of a contraindication the mother should be asked to get out of the water and assisted from the pool for monitoring and care.
- If the mother is unable to leave the pool under her own power or has collapsed an emergency evacuation will need to be conducted.
- A trolley should be available for the mother to be moved onto.
- Care must be taken that proper lifting techniques are employed to avert strain & injury.
Active Birth Pools are portable hoist compatible
Manual Handling advisors may insist that women are evacuated from the birth pool with a hoist and that this facility is provided for.
Active Birth Pools are designed to accommodate a portable hoist should the need arise.
Please visit https://activebirthpools.com/dealing-with-emergencies-2/ to see simple and safe it is to evacuate a mother from our pools in case of emergency.
