International Guidelines for Neonatal Resuscitation: An excerpt from the Guidelines 2000 for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care: International Consensus on Science. Contributors and Reviewers for the Neonatal Resuscitation Guidelines

• Published in: Pediatrics (Evanston) 2000-09, Vol.106 (3), p.E29-E29
• Main Authors: Niermeyer, S, Kattwinkel, J, Van Reempts, P, Nadkarni, V, Phillips, B, Zideman, D, Azzopardi, D, Berg, R, Boyle, D, Boyle, R, Burchfield, D, Carlo, W, Chameides, L, Denson, S, Fallat, M, Gerardi, M, Gunn, A, Hazinski, M F, Keenan, W, Knaebel, S, Milner, A, Perlman, J, Saugstad, O D, Schleien, C, Solimano, A, Speer, M, Toce, S, Wiswell, T, Zaritsky, A
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Blood Volume; Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - methods; Communication; Delivery Rooms; Emergency Service, Hospital; Epinephrine - therapeutic use; Ethics, Medical; Evidence-Based Medicine; Fever - prevention & control; Humans; Hypothermia - prevention & control; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Newborn, Diseases - therapy; Infant, Premature; Infant, Premature, Diseases - therapy; Meconium Aspiration Syndrome - therapy; Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; Patient Care Team; Pediatrics; Respiration, Artificial; Vasoconstrictor Agents - therapeutic use
• ISSN: 0031-4005; 1098-4275

The International Guidelines 2000 Conference on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC) formulated new evidenced-based recommendations for neonatal resuscitation. These guidelines comprehensively update the last recommendations, published in 1992 after the Fifth National Conference on CPR and ECC. As a result of the evidence evaluation process, significant changes occurred in the recommended management routines for: * Meconium-stained amniotic fluid: If the newly born infant has absent or depressed respirations, heart rate