Pre-camp preparation for participants
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.
Camp objectives
- 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
Procedures
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
Scenarios
- Multiple common and uncommon scenarios based on NRP principles are practiced
- Scenarios are practiced within a multidisciplinary team