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Emergencies and resuscitation

How to deliver a baby in an emergency

Other platforms explain it with text and video. In Making Synapses you practice it on the patient.

MD / DOPANursing (NCLEX)EMS (NREMT)
Practice it in VR with Blocky

Most births go well. Your job is to support, keep the baby warm and watch the mother.

Step by step

  1. Prepare

    Call for help, gloves, clean area, towels, warm room. [1]

  2. Crowning

    Support the head gently to prevent a fast delivery. [1]

  3. Cord

    If around the neck, slip it over the head. [1]

  4. Shoulders

    Gentle downward guidance for the top shoulder, then upward. [1]

  5. Baby

    Dry, stimulate, skin to skin, cover; clamp and cut the cord after about a minute. [1]

  6. Mother

    Do not pull the cord; placenta usually within 30 minutes; massage the uterus; watch bleeding. [1]

Common errors

Practice it in Making Synapses

In Making Synapses you do this on the patient, not on paper: every step goes on the checklist with a score, and in Teach mode Blocky tells you what comes next.

Making Synapses cases that train this skill

11 Making Synapses cases train this skill: open the case library

Sources

  1. NASEMSO National Model EMS Clinical Guidelines
  2. NREMT psychomotor skill sheets (EMT and Paramedic)

Facts and steps follow NASEMSO National Model EMS Clinical Guidelines; NREMT psychomotor skill sheets (EMT and Paramedic). Making Synapses is not affiliated with these organizations. Updated: 2026-10-11.