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Chest Compressions in the Delivery Room
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: Received: 1 October 2018 / Approved: 2 October 2018 / Online: 2 October 2018 (14:58:58 CEST)
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Garcia-Hidalgo, C.; Schmölzer, G.M. Chest Compressions in the Delivery Room. Children 2019, 6, 4. Garcia-Hidalgo, C.; Schmölzer, G.M. Chest Compressions in the Delivery Room. Children 2019, 6, 4.
Abstract
Annually, an estimated 13-26 million newborns need respiratory support and 2-3 million newborns need extensive resuscitation, defined as chest compression and 100% oxygen with or without epinephrine in the delivery room. Despite such care, there is a high incidence of mortality and short-term neurologic morbidity. The poor prognosis associated with receiving chest compression alone or with medications in the delivery room raises questions as to whether improved cardiopulmonary resuscitation methods specifically tailored to the newborn could improve outcomes. This review discusses the current recommendations, mode of action, different compression to ventilation ratio, continuous chest compression with asynchronous ventilations, chest compression and sustained inflation optimal depth, and oxygen concentration during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Keywords
Infants, Newborn, Neonatal Resuscitation, Chest compressions, Delivery room
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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