Neonatal Resuscitation Training Centers

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Saving newborn lives and ensuring the most advantageous infant health outcomes is at the core of both AIHA’s Neonatal Resuscitation program and our Neonatal Resuscitation Training Centers. The training curriculum and materials used by these centers is based on the Association/American Academy of Pediatrics neonatal resuscitation program. In conjunction with our partners, we have translated both the AHA/AAP Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation and Instructor’s Manual for Neonatal Resuscitation into Russian and Ukrainian languages.

The AIHA neonatal resuscitation training course provides healthcare professionals with a set of basic skills in newborn care that are standard practice in delivery rooms across the United States, Western Europe, and other areas of the world. At each center, delivery room personnel and other care providers learn how to assist infants who experience difficulty breathing on their own. Medical teams are taught procedures such as thermal management, infant positioning, suctioning, and stimulation, as well as more specialized skills such as ventilation, intubation, and the use of medications and volume. Many of these techniques can be implemented using minimal equipment and at little additional cost to the healthcare facility.

Neonatal Resuscitation Training Centers staff disseminate skills-based knowledge by conducting monthly training courses. They also routinely gather statistics from medical institutions that have sent staff for training in order to evaluate the impact of training in the region.

In collaboration with local and national ministries of health, AIHA and its partners have facilitated mandatory training in neonatal resuscitation for staff providing delivery room care and the inclusion of such training in medical school curricula. The Ukrainian Ministry of Health has established a national program on primary neonatal resuscitation to ensure individuals responsible for the care of newborns are competent in these skills. The Russian Federation established a similar program, based on the fact that neonatal mortality rates fell by more than 40 percent in several hospitals following implementation of AIHA’s Neonatal Resuscitation program.

Many AIHA partner institutions have sent clinical staff to one of the Neonatal Resuscitation Training Centers. The following partnerships participated in the Neonatal Resuscitation program:

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