Re: Rural births

[PJ_WM_HERMEL]

Hi Marilyn,   In response to the air ambulance not taking multiparous women in labour   If it was an obstructed labour, the air ambulance would probably not be called instead we would call the Retrieval team.  The Retreival team would probably consist of obstetrician, neonatologist, anaethetist, midwife and they would deliver the women in our town and then mother and baby would be retreived back to Adelaide.  If it looked as if a multip women would deliver in town without a GP with obstetric privelages then again the retrieval team would be called - this happened only the other day & the woman ended up staying in town and they retreived a medical patient back to Adelaide !!!!   The midwives on the RFDS do see it being a problem if a woman delivers mid flight.  It is often just the midwife and the pilot on each flight and the planes are very cramped. Regards Wendy