Associate Program Director, Georgetown Emergency Medicine Residency Georgetown University Silver Spring, Maryland
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
A refresher of Neonatal Resuscitation with a focus on the absolute must-haves for a general Emergency physician that may not encounter this regularly, hopefully!
Learning Objectives:
Describe the neonatal resuscitation algorithm to help manage a critically ill newborn.
List needs for a successful resuscitation such as appropriate equipment (including the infant warmer, intubation supplies, BVM) and medications.
Describe the steps in performing an umbilical vein catheterization.
Describe the neonatal resuscitation algorithm to help manage a critically ill newborn.