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Delivery room intervention: improving the outcome.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20363455     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The authors have conducted video review of neonatal resuscitations since 1999. Over this 10-year period 3 phases of our experience have been recognized. Our early reviews helped us recognize what we were doing in the delivery room, an area that had been ignored in improved intervention. It was noted that on many occasions multiple people were trying to accomplish the same task, that bag and mask ventilation was almost exclusively the purview of the respiratory therapists and was not performed well by others, and that infants with low birth weight were often hypothermic on admission. After determining what was being done and how well it was being done, we moved on to how to do it better. This period included making environmental changes by warming the room, the use of occlusive wrap, determining the effectiveness of bag and mask ventilation with colorimetric CO(2) detectors, and the introduction of crew resource management to develop consistent and effective communication. The third and current phase of our experience is to determine how these interventions affect delivery room and potentially later outcomes. Well-designed clinical trials are still needed to further establish the most optimal resuscitation interventions.
Authors:
Wade D Rich; Tina Leone; Neil N Finer
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Clinics in perinatology     Volume:  37     ISSN:  1557-9840     ISO Abbreviation:  Clin Perinatol     Publication Date:  2010 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-04-05     Completed Date:  2010-07-20     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  7501306     Medline TA:  Clin Perinatol     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  189-202     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
Copyright 2010. Published by Elsevier Inc.
Affiliation:
Division of Neonatology, University of California San Diego, 402 Dickenson Street, Suite 1-140, San Diego, CA 92103-8774, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Body Temperature
Delivery Rooms*
Female
Humans
Infant, Newborn*
Medical Errors / prevention & control
Monitoring, Physiologic
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Oximetry
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy
Pregnancy
Quality Assurance, Health Care*
Respiration, Artificial
Resuscitation / standards*
Videotape Recording

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