European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Newborn resuscitation and support of transition of infants at birth

John Madar; Charles C Roehr; Sean Ainsworth; Hege Ersdal; Colin Morley; Mario Rüdiger; Christiane Skåre; Tomasz Szczapa; Arjan Te Pas; Daniele Trevisanuto; Berndt Urlesberger; Dominic Wilkinson; Jonathan P Wyllie

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.014

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Newborn resuscitation and support of transition of infants at birth

Resuscitation. 2021 Apr:161:291-326. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.014. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neonatology, University Hospitals Plymouth, Plymouth, UK. Electronic address: john.madar@nhs.net.
² Newborn Services, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK; Department of Paediatrics, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Nuffield Department of Population Health, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
³ Directorate of Women's and Children's Services, Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, UK.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
⁵ University of Melbourne, Australia; Department of Obstetrics, University of Cambridge, UK.
⁶ Department for Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Clinic for Pediatrics, University Hospital C.G.Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Center for Feto-Neonatal Health, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway.
⁸ Department of Neonatology, Neonatal Biophysical Monitoring and Cardiopulmonary Therapies Research Unit, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
⁹ Department of Paediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Department of Woman's and Child's Health, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy.
¹¹ Division of Neonatology, Medical University Graz, Austria.
¹² Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK; John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
¹³ James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.

PMID: 33773829
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.014

Abstract

The European Resuscitation Council has produced these newborn life support guidelines, which are based on the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) 2020 Consensus on Science and Treatment Recommendations (CoSTR) for Neonatal Life Support. The guidelines cover the management of the term and preterm infant. The topics covered include an algorithm to aid a logical approach to resuscitation of the newborn, factors before delivery, training and education, thermal control, management of the umbilical cord after birth, initial assessment and categorisation of the newborn infant, airway and breathing and circulation support, communication with parents, considerations when withholding and discontinuing support.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation*
Consensus
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature*
Resuscitation