Utilizing Recorded Resuscitations for Neonatal Team Process Improvement

Newborn resuscitation requires health care professionals to quickly assemble into a high-functioning integrated team. At the authors' academic children's hospital, there are billions of permutations of team composition that could attend a complex newborn delivery at any given time. ResusOne, a resuscitation safety and performance improvement program, uses recorded neonatal resuscitations to identify areas for improvement. The authors identified the following key areas that would support better team performance: (1) need for role clarity and task allocation among delivery team members and (2) communication challenges when calling for neonatal delivery teams. This article describes two tools that were developed to address the issues that were identified in these two areas.