BACKGROUND A previous study in 1987 showed that neonatal care facilities in major hospitals in the country were of a very poor standard. The present study was done to reassess their status. DESIGN A survey. METHODS A pretested structured questionnaire was sent to 48 centers in 1994-95. The responses were analyzed. RESULTS A total of 37 centers returned the questionnaire duly filled. Of th...

In 1953, Virginia Apgar published the article "A Proposal for a New Method for Evaluation of the Newborn Infant" about her method for scoring newborn infants directly after birth to assess their health and whether medical intervention was necessary. Apgar worked at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, New York, as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, a physician who administers pain medicati...

The book mainly deals with modes of asphyxiation and methods of resuscitation. In the earlier chapters the author has discussed the role of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the physiology of the human system and the modern principles of shock and acapnia. The discussions on the fallacy of asphyxial acidosis and on the phenomenon of acarbia deserve special mention. The book was read all through with...

AIM To assess the efficacy and feasibility of implementing Helping Babies Breathe, a neonatal resuscitation programme for resource-limited environments. BACKGROUND This quality improvement project focused on training midwives on Helping Babies Breathe to address high rates of neonatal mortality secondary to birth asphyxia. METHODS The convenience sample was 33 midwives in Zanzibar, Tanzania...

Advance preparation of oxytocin not only facilitates rapid administration after delivery to prevent postpartum hemorrhage but also could free health workers to provide immediate neonatal resuscitation to non-breathing newborns within the critical 1-minute time window.

Improving teamwork in healthcare may help reduce and manage errors. This paper takes a step toward that goal by (1) proposing a set of teamwork behaviours, or behavioural markers, for neonatal resuscitation; (2) presenting a data form for recording observations about these markers; and (3) comparing and contrasting different sets of teamwork behaviours that have been developed for healthcare. D...

Approximately, 10-20% of newborns require breathing assistance at birth, which remains the cornerstone of neonatal resuscitation. Fortunately, the need for chest compression (CC) or medications in the delivery room (DR) is rare. About 0.1% of term infants and up to 15% of preterm infants receive these interventions, this will result in approximately one million newborn deaths annually worldwide...

The European Resuscitation Council has produced these basic life support guidelines, which are based on the 2020 International Consensus Cardiopulmonary Science with Treatment Recommendations. topics covered include cardiac arrest recognition, alerting emergency services, chest compressions, rescue breaths, automated external defibrillation (AED), CPR quality measurement, new technologies, safe...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiological characteristics of cardiac arrests attended in basic life support units in the Basque Country (Spain) and look for factors associated with failure of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. METHODS We conducted an observational study during 18 months, including all out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation provided by basic life support u...

AIM To evaluate neonatal resuscitation of infants born with severe asphyxia. METHOD All case records of the 472 claims for financial compensation due to suspected medical malpractice in conjunction with childbirth in Sweden between 1990 and 2005 were scrutinized. Inclusion criteria were: gestational age > or =33 completed weeks, planned vaginal onset of delivery, a reactive CTG at onset of la...