The OB SUSIE® is a versatile and durable birthing torso designed to help participants practice and hone the skills needed to manage routine and difficult deliveries. OB SUSIE® can be used as a tabletop trainer and in hybrid simulation exercises.
Product Features:
• Adult-sized female torso; from diaphragm to quadriceps
• Versatile and portable for easy training in any setting
• Available in light, medium, or dark skin tone at no additional cost
• Flexible birth canal capable of demonstrating dystocia
• Dilating cervix
Vacuum Assisted Delivery:
• Smooth skin cap allows for application of vacuum mechanism for assisted delivery
• Pause delivery to show difficult delivery
Normal Vaginal Delivery:
• Demonstrate internal rotation, expulsion, and external rotation
• Prepare fetus in ROA, LOA, ROP, or LOP and deliver in ROT or LOT
• Cervix dilates as labor progresses
• ractice resolution of cord and placenta complications: cord prolapse, nuchal cord, cord knots, partial placenta previa, retained fragments
Breech Delivery:
• Perform Pinard “leg flip”
Leopold Maneuvers:
• Inflatable cushion lifts fetus for Leopold maneuver
• Palpate and turn the fetus using external version exercises
• Soft stomach cover facilitates palpation for fetal manipulation
Postpartum Activity:
• Practice fundal massage to return a “boggy” uterus to its firm state
• Episiotomy trainers with tears in the labia minora, mediolateral tears, and standard mediolateral episiotomy
