How Aggressive Should Delivery Room Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Be for Extremely Low Birth Weight Neonates?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 869-869
Author(s):  
Frank I. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Delivery Room ◽  
Extremely Low Birth Weight ◽  
Active Intervention

The article by Dr Davis1 regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation for extremely low birth weight neonates provides a useful example of easily collected and thoughtfully analyzed data. I agree that birth weights would be helpful. However, I have a question and two critical observations: 1. The text states "resuscitation was attempted" for 62 infants weighing 501 to 750 g. In Fig 1, under the heading ACTIVE INTERVENTION? this cohort is split into NO, N = 4 and YES, N = 58.

Letter to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 869-870
Author(s):  
Deborah J. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Delivery Room ◽  
Extremely Low Birth Weight ◽  
Active Intervention ◽  
Letter To The Editor

I appreciate Dr Clark's comments about my article entitled "How aggressive should delivery room cardiopulmonary resuscitation be for extremely low birth weight neonates?" Dr Clark points out a regrettable discrepancy between the text and Fig 1; the text should have indicated that there were 62 neonates born during the study period who weighed 501 to 750 g. Of these, 58 had active intervention defined as resuscitative efforts at least to the level of intubation and ventilation if needed.

scholarly journals Outcome of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants Who Received Delivery Room Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

2012 ◽  
Vol 160 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-244.e2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myra H. Wyckoff ◽  
Walid A. Salhab ◽  
Roy J. Heyne ◽  
Douglas E. Kendrick ◽  
Barbara J. Stoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Delivery Room ◽  
Extremely Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants

How Aggressive Should Delivery Room Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Be for Extremely Low Birth Weight Neonates?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-450
Author(s):  
DEBORAH J. DAVIS
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Chart Review ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Delivery Room ◽  
Extremely Low Birth Weight ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
Birth Weight Neonate

The neonatology staff attending high-risk deliveries are often faced with difficult ethical decisions. One of these is whether or not to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on extremely low birth weight neonates in the delivery room. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of information in the medical literature addressing this dilemma. To determine whether guidelines for resuscitation of the extremely low birth weight neonate could be set, I undertook a chart review of all neonates born with a birth weight of 1000 g or less in our institution. METHODS All babies born at the Ottawa General Hospital who weighed 1000 g or less at birth were identified through the neonatal intensive care unit logbook, which records all births at which a neonatal physician is in attendance.

Intact Survival in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants After Delivery Room Resuscitation

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. e40-e40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil N. Finer ◽  
Thomas Tarin ◽  
Yvonne E. Vaucher ◽  
Keith Barrington ◽  
Raul Bejar
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Delivery Room ◽  
Extremely Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants

Delivery Room Management of Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants: Spontaneous Breathing or Intubation?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 961-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Lindner ◽  
Sabine Voßbeck ◽  
Helmut Hummler ◽  
Frank Pohlandt
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Spontaneous Breathing ◽  
Delivery Room ◽  
Extremely Low Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants ◽  
Delivery Room Management
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document