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Delivery Room Management of the Newly Born Infant

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According to WHO estimates, between 0.5% and 3% of approximately 120 million infants born every year suffer birth asphyxia requiring resuscitation, and some 900,000 of these newborns die each year, and a similar number will develop motor and/or neurocognitive dysfunctions. The incidence of birth asphyxia is higher in developing countries because of a higher prevalence of risk factors, namely, women are in poor health when they become pregnant; the incidence of pregnancy and delivery complications in these women is high; care during labor and delivery is often inadequate or nonexistent. Delivery room stabilization of the newborn is the most frequent intervention in the neonatal period; however, many newborns do not receive adequate care in the delivery room (DR) because birth attendants have not been adequately trained, necessary equipment is lacking, international guidelines are not put into practice and certain traditional practices are not only ineffective but may...

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  1. Neonatal Research Unit, Division of Neonatology, University Hospital La Fe, Bulevar Sur s/n, 46026, Valencia, Spain

    Prof. Maximo Vento PhD, MD (Director)

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

    Abdelaziz Y. Elzouki (Professor of Pediatrics) (Professor of Pediatrics)

  2. National Center of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (NCAAI), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Harb A. Harfi (Director) (Director)

  3. Consultant Pediatric Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Islamic Hospital, Amman, Jordan

    Hisham M. Nazer

  4. Seattle Children's Hospital University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA

    F. Bruder Stapleton (Professor and Chair Department of Pediatrics) (Professor and Chair Department of Pediatrics)

  5. Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Woman and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI, USA

    William Oh (Professor of Pediatrics) (Professor of Pediatrics)

  6. University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA

    Richard J. Whitley (Professor of Pediatrics) (Professor of Pediatrics)

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Vento, M. (2012). Delivery Room Management of the Newly Born Infant. In: Elzouki, A.Y., Harfi, H.A., Nazer, H.M., Stapleton, F.B., Oh, W., Whitley, R.J. (eds) Textbook of Clinical Pediatrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02202-9_10

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