Newborn resuscitation (help with breathing at birth)
Help for a baby who does not start or keep breathing at birth. WHO says birth asphyxia, the failure to start and keep breathing at birth, causes about one quarter of neonatal deaths worldwide and that effective resuscitation at birth can prevent a large proportion of them.
Also called Neonatal resuscitation · Resuscitation at birth
- Intervention
- In this atlas
Overview
Technical summary
WHO, in its 2012 guidelines for resource-limited settings, defines birth asphyxia as failure to start and keep up breathing at birth, says it causes about one quarter of neonatal deaths worldwide, and says effective resuscitation at birth can prevent a large proportion of them. Helping Babies Breathe is a training programme for birth attendants and has its own page. This page does not yet cover current US resuscitation guidelines.
About this intervention
- Type
- Procedure
- Mechanism
- Not reported
Claims and evidence
Context Newborns who need resuscitation in resource-limited settings (WHO 2012)
- Recipient
- Newborn
- Population
- Newborns in resource-limited settings who require resuscitation.
- Care setting
- Resource-limited settings.
- Geography
- Not stated beyond resource-limited settings.
- Life stage
- Birth
- Gestational age
- Not reported
- Postnatal age
- Not reported
- Follow-up
- Not applicable: a guideline overview.
Eligibility: 1 inclusion criterion; exclusion criteria not stated
- Included
- Newborns who require resuscitation
- Excluded
- None stated
WHO states in its 2012 guidelines on basic newborn resuscitation that about one quarter of neonatal deaths worldwide are caused by birth asphyxia, which it defines as failure to start and keep up breathing at birth, and that effective resuscitation at birth can prevent a large proportion of these deaths. The guidelines are written for settings with limited resources.
Applies to Newborn- Newborns in resource-limited settings who require resuscitation.
- Resource-limited settings.
- Not stated beyond resource-limited settings.
- Birth
- Gestational age Not reported
- Postnatal age Not reported
- Certainty method
- Not assessed
- Limitations
- Taken from the overview on the WHO publication page only; the guideline PDF was not read, so the recommended steps are not recorded. The figures date from the guideline development and may have changed. The page prints all rights reserved, so only short quotations are used.
- Last checked
- Not recorded
- Next evidence check due
- Not scheduled
Sources and citations (2)
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Supports Guidelines on basic newborn resuscitation (WHO publication page)
- Locator
- Overview, sentences 1 to 3
- How it applies
- Burden and the role of resuscitation, as WHO states them.
- Retrieved
- Source effective date
- Not reported
- Source state
- Current
- Snapshot hash
63716f7d6f0612a9d39695b1020e05427a90f1055ea88e8b17c4c80142f584b8- Reuse basis
- The page prints World Health Organization, 2012, all rights reserved, and does not state a Creative Commons licence. The project rule for WHO text is short quotations with attribution. The page bytes are not committed.
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Background Guidelines on basic newborn resuscitation (WHO publication page)
- Locator
- Overview, paragraph 2, sentence 1
- How it applies
- Population and settings the updated guidelines address.
- Retrieved
- Source effective date
- Not reported
- Source state
- Current
- Snapshot hash
63716f7d6f0612a9d39695b1020e05427a90f1055ea88e8b17c4c80142f584b8- Reuse basis
- The page prints World Health Organization, 2012, all rights reserved, and does not state a Creative Commons licence. The project rule for WHO text is short quotations with attribution. The page bytes are not committed.
Record details
- Record id
maternal:neonatal-resuscitation- Content hash
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