Fellow UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Background: Although 10% of newborns require basic resuscitative measures at delivery, less than 1% need advanced resuscitation (i.e., intubation, chest compressions, and volume expanders). Multidisciplinary teams assigned to attend deliveries need to be competent in all resuscitation skills to provide the highest quality of care, and providers are required to repeat a recertification course every two years to maintain competency. Ongoing restrictive exposure to deliveries makes it challenging for residents to maintain their resuscitation skills and stay abreast of the latest recommendations. Objective: To create and evaluate a simple and skill-oriented neonatal resuscitation simulation curriculum for pediatric trainees with the goal of improving their neonatal resuscitation neonatal resuscitation performance and retention. Design/Methods: After an initial informal needs assessment was conducted to assess neonatal fellow and pediatric resident needs, an education curriculum was developed. For six months, thirty-nine pediatric residents rotating in the newborn nursery participated in two short scenarios followed by debriefing. Each session focused on a specific resuscitation skill and consisted of a brief simulation followed by a debriefing and skill review. In October 2023, a survey was sent to all pediatric residents to evaluate effectiveness and participant reception after six months of curriculum implementation. Survey results will provide insight into the efficacy of the curriculum, supply formative feedback to incorporate into future iterations of this curriculum, and assist in determining the necessity for curricular expansion to the Neonatal Intensive Care, Labor and Delivery, and Post-Partum units.
