Helping Babies Breathe: Newborn resuscitation

8 February, 2021

Below are extracts from 'Acting on the Call Bulletin: Updates on USAID’s Efforts to End Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths'

Read online: https://medium.com/usaid-2030/helping-babies-breathe-8923337f63d7

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Helping Babies Breathe... a public-private partnership, which USAID helped launch 10 years ago, created a global movement for preventing newborn deaths from birth asphyxia...

Every year an estimated 10 million newborns globally need basic breathing assistance...

A birth attendant who takes action to stimulate a newborn baby’s breathing within 60 seconds of birth, known as “the golden minute,” can save the newborn’s life...

About 1 million birth attendants have received low-cost, evidence-based training for newborn resuscitation techniques through the innovative educational materials, hands-on learning equipment, and peer-to-peer teaching characteristic of the Helping Babies Breathe curriculum.

Designed for use in resource-limited settings, these techniques can reduce fresh stillbirths and first-day newborn deaths by about 30 percent...

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Comments (NPW):

During the COVID pandemic, more births are taking place in the home, without skilled birth attendants.

A recent paper in Global Pediatric Health found that CHWs had 'considerable retention of knowledge and ability to practice the procedure even though some equipment was not available'.

Influence of Neonatal Resuscitation Training on Practice of Community Health Extension Workers in Managing Asphyxiated Newborns in Rural Nigeria: A Qualitative Study

Adenike Adebola O. Olaniyi MPh, RN, Busisiwe P. Ncama, PhD, MCurFirst Published July 24, 2020 Research Article

https://doi.org/10.1177/2333794X20938944

Best wishes, Neil

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