OBJECTIVE: The American Academy of Pediatrics and American Heart Association sponsored Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) was started in Illinois 1987 to standardize knowledge and skills for ...

To add a team training and human error curriculum to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) and measure its effect on teamwork. We hypothesized that teams that ...

The differences in content between these programs permit the practitioner whose primary practice setting is the delivery room to gain a more extensive understanding of the physiology of the newborn ...

Nearly every neonatal, obstetric, and emergency medical service provider, whether nurse, physician, technician, or respiratory therapist, is trained in the principles of delivery room resuscitation ...

NEW ORLEANS - With about 62,000 babies born outside of hospitals each year, and 1 in 10 newborns needing help to start breathing, emergency medical services (EMS) responders must be ready to give ...

Neonatal resuscitation is the manual help given by the physician to the baby after its birth to help it breathe and heart to beat in emergency situations. Neonatal resuscitation program thus forms an ...

Laerdal Medical, in alliance with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), has developed a second volume of pre-programmed scenarios for use with Laerdal's SimNewB (TM) neonatal patient simulator.