BLSO^™ Provider Course Overview

Basic Life Support in Obstetrics (BLSO) is designed to equip first responders and students with the skills needed to assist in normal and emergency obstetric situations.

The following topics and learning activities represent an example of the BLSO Course experience.

As of 9/28/2022, there is no CME credit associated with the BLSO Course.

Normal Labor

Introduction to normal labor
View video of normal labor
Practice normal delivery with manikins

Emergent Prenatal Assessment

Minilecture
Practice taking history, maternal exam and listening to fetal heart with a Doppler stethoscope or fetoscope

Saving the Life of the Mother: Postpartum Hemorrhage and Maternal Resuscitation

Mini-lecture
Practice PPH resuscitation and 4 Ts with fundal massage on mannequin using models for firm (hard ball in sock) and boggy (rice in sock) uteri
Practice trauma resuscitation with manikins

Malpresentations

Mini-lecture
Using manikins, practice recognition of most common malpresentations (transverse lie, occiput posterior, breech, brow, compound or face presentation) and how to manage in a pre-hospital setting with an emphasis on the breech

Shoulder Dystocia

Mini-lecture
Review HELP-R (the ALSO^® HELPE-RR mnemonic simplified for BLSO)
Using manikins, practice maneuvers for shoulder dystocia

Hypertensive Emergencies in Pregnancy

Mini-lecture
Case discussion of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia case

Preterm Labor and Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM)

Mini-lecture
Case discussion of PTL and PROM

Saving the Life of the Baby: Neonatal Resuscitation

Mini-lecture
Case-based small group practice with neonatal resuscitation using infant manikins (warming, drying, stimulating, skin to skin under a blanket with mom, early breastfeeding, basic Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) assessment, and resuscitation if equipment available)

Labor Dystocia

For medical students

Mini-lecture
Case discussion of labor dystocia (failure to progress and arrest of descent)

Electronic Fetal Monitoring