Quality improvement for neonatal resuscitation and delivery room care

Delayed umbilical cord clamping in term and near-term newborns

“…The Romanian Association of Neonatology has recently revised the Neonatal Resuscitation national guidelines [25] based on the American Academy of Pediatrics and American Heart Association Neonatal Resuscitation, 8th Edition [26] and European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021 [27] and updated the recommendations for umbilical cord clamping [28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. In preparing for assisting a delivery, the neonatal and obstetrical teams must collaborate in trying to evaluate the need for resuscitation by answering four questions: what is the gestational age of the expected infant?…”

Editorial: Insights in pediatric pulmonology 2021

“…We know that the advances in neonatal intensive care have led to improved survival in preterm infants ( 2 ). The effect of this result is the increase of infants affected by chronic conditions that affect primary the lung, but also undermine the balance of the whole organism.…”