The NICU orientation boot camp was started in 2008 for our first-year Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellows. The boot camp is led by Newborn Medicine faculty and conducted in the Saigh Pediatric Simulation Center since the inauguration of the center in 2009. The boot camp is multi-disciplinary and facilitates interaction between physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists.
Overview
- Refresh/learn knowledge required to resuscitate neonates in the delivery room and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) using NRP
- Refresh/learn technical skills commonly required in the delivery room and NICU
- Reinforce team dynamics
- Reinforce/learn communication skills to update families during neonatal resuscitations and arrange medical transports
Participants are encouraged to review the AAP Neonatal Resuscitation Program and watch videos of the procedures that are practiced during the camp. This maximizes the hands-on time for each participant.
Participants spend time practicing the following procedures/use of equipment listed below:
- Maximum sterile barrier and setting up a sterile field for procedures
- Umbilical arterial and venous catheter insertion
- T-piece resuscitator / flow-inflating bag / self-inflating bag / endotracheal intubation
- Videolarynygoscopy
- Laryngeal mask airway and oral airway placement
- Defibrillation/arrhythmia recognition and management
- Needle decompression of pneumothorax
- Chest tube (rigid and Turkel) insertion for treatment of pneumothorax
- Pigtail catheter insertion for treatment of pneumothorax
- Pericardiocentesis
- Exchange transfusion
- Invasive and non-invasive ventilator strategies
- Multiple common and uncommon scenarios based on NRP principles are practiced
- Scenarios are practiced within a multidisciplinary team
Schedule
The 2024 NICU Fellow Boot Camp will take place on July 13 and 14 at the Saigh Pediatric Simulation Center located in St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Saturday, July 13, 2024
| 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Introduction |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Session 1 procedures and scenarios |
| 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 2:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Session 2 procedures and scenarios |
Sunday, July 14, 2024
| 7:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Scenarios |
|---|---|
| 12:00 p.m. | Program concludes |
Program coordinator
Lindsay Pickering
Coordinator Residency/Fellowship, Newborn Medicine
- Phone: 314-454-6148
- Email: lindsayp@wustl.edu