Cord prolapse: protect, prepare, communicate
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed31-year-old woman for cord-prolapse recognition, temporary-harm-reduction boundaries, urgent-birth coordination, and active-risk handoff practice. About 6 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Activate the cord-prolapse response, diagnosis clock, theatre, anesthesia, newborn, and support roles.
- Connect membrane rupture, fetal-heart change, supplied examination, birth imminence, and the whole person.
- Review qualified pressure-relief, minimal-handling, position, and no-delay boundaries.
- Review birth urgency, mode, anesthesia, newborn, documentation, and maternal-safety boundaries.
- Review the fixed persistent-compromise and theatre-transfer report.
- Hand off fetal, maternal, theatre, newborn, support, documentation, and outcome risk.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Umbilical Cord Prolapse, Green-top Guideline No. 50. 2014; reviewed 2024.
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Umbilical cord prolapse in late pregnancy. 2025.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Fetal monitoring in labour, NG229. 2022; updated 2026.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.