Since its release in 2008, Birth Emergency Skills Training® (BEST) has equipped thousands of midwives to manage obstetrical emergencies with confidence and proficiency. Building on the trusted first edition, Essentials for Safe Practice delivers cutting-edge updates and innovative strategies for recognizing and managing complications in the community setting. Grounded in core competencies, it promotes evidence-based care for antepartum bleeding, postpartum hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, abdominal pain, respiratory distress, undiagnosed twins, trauma, neonatal resuscitation, malpresentations, and more. Expanded and fully revised, this edition offers broader clinical coverage, new mnemonics, updated graphics, and additional photographs and illustrations. It guides the reader from the first steps of intervention through definitive care-bridging anticipation and action, midwifery and medicine. Award-winning and richly illustrated, Birth Emergency Skills Training® remains an essential resource for midwives, students, nurses, and other birth professionals. Translated into Russian and developed into dynamic workshops, B.E.

S.T. continues to advance the art and science of safe birth. Visit https://www.birthemergencyworkshops.com to explore a variety of learning opportunities.