Background
3-6% of newborns do not breathe spontaneously at birth and require respiratory assistance. Resuscitation of newborns is time-critical and can be technically demanding.
Each individual healthcare worker is exposed to relatively few neonatal resuscitations. It takes time to gain experience, and lifelong training is needed to maintain skills.
There has been a lack of a system that collects and stores objective data from resuscitations.
“If you don’t measure something you can’t improve it. And once you measure it you will reveal things that need improving.”
– Global Resuscitation Alliance
Goal
To learn more about neonatal resuscitation, how newborns are resuscitated in real-life situations, and the effect of video-based debriefing for learning after resuscitation.
Project
The Safer Births Scandinavia research network will undertake two key studies:
- A population-based observational study in which we will evaluate differences in how newborns are resuscitated at different hospitals in Scandinavia, and which factors influence the outcome.
- An intervention study in which we will evaluate the effect of video-based debriefing after real resuscitation events for learning.
Project Partners
This project is a collaboration between Helse Stavanger (Stavanger University Hospital), Laerdal Medical, University of Stavanger, TEKNA, SAFER and the participating hospitals:
- Haukeland University Hospital, Norway
- Helse Fonna, Norway
- Helse Førde, Norway
- Nordland Hospitals , Bodø, Norway
- Vestfold Hospital, Norway
- Rigshospitalet, Denmark
- Herlev Hospital, Denmark
- Nordsjælland Hillerød, Denmark
- St. Gøran Hospital, Sweden
