Telemedicine for Neonatal Resuscitation

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Telemedicine for Neonatal Resuscitation

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Pat Scheans, DNP, NNP-BC , Legacy Health, Portland, OR
Lori McElwain, BSN, RNC-OB , Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, Portland, OR
Lora Horn, RN, MHA , Randall Children’s Hospital, Portland, OR

Discipline: Newborn Care (N), Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:
  • 1. The learner will explore a novel use of telemedicine.
  • 2. The learner will understand the issue of task saturation in neonatal resuscitation.
  • 3. The learner will describe the benefit of hands free leadership on team performance.

    • Submission Description:
    We developed a Telemedicine Neonatal Resuscitation Program, linking a NRP leader in a Level III NICU to a Level I nursery. This led to more consistent adherence to NRP principles, and positively impacted time to transfer initiation, as well as time to initiation of neuroprotective cooling. This novel use of telemedicine could support perinatal teams at community hospitals by tertiary care centers, and could improve medical care in remote and low resource birthing centers throughout the United States, as well as around the world.

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