World Health Organization : Year 1998 ; World Health Organization, Reproductive Health(Technical Support), Maternal and Newborn Health-Safe Motherhood, No. 98.1: Safe Motherhood

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1998 ; World Health Organization, Reproductive Health(Technical Support), Maternal and Newborn Health-Safe Motherhood, No. 98.1: Safe Motherhood
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Description
Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations with primary responsibility for international health matters and public health. Through this organization, which was created in 1948, the health professions of some 189 countries exchange their knowlebge and experience with the aim of making possible the attainment by all citizens of the world by \he year 2000 of a level of health that will permit them to lead a socially and economically produdjive life. By means of direct technical cooperation with its Member States, and by stirnulati& such cooperation among them, WHO promotes the development of comprehensive health services, the prevention and control of diseases, the improvement of environmental conditions, the development of health manpower, the coordination and development of biomedical and health services research, and the planning and implementation of health programmes. These broad fields of endeavour encompass a wide variety of activities, such as developing systems of primary health care that reach the whole population of Member countries; the health of mothers and children; combating malnutrition; controlling malaria and other communicable diseases including tuberculosis and leprosy; having achieved the eradication of smallpox, promoting mass immunization against a number of other preventable diseases; improving mental health; providing safe water 'supplies; and training health personnel of all categories.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS I page PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 GUIDELINES FOR BASIC NEWBORN RESUSCITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Anticipate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Prepare for birth . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Immediate care at Firth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Assess breathing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Resuscitate - act quickly and correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Care after successfhl resuscitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 TECHNICAL BASIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Birth asphyxia . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Management of the^ newborn with birth asphyxia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Practices that are not beneficial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Prevention of infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Clamping and cutting the cord' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 For ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 For suction . . . . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 To prevent heat los~s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Cleaning and decontamination of equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4 DOCUMENTING RESUSCITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Records . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 19 ICD codes . . . . . i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5 SPECIAL CONDITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 When to start resus~citating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 When to stop resuscitating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Failed resuscitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Other special conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 6 SPECIAL CIRCU~~STANCES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Mouth to mouth-and-nose breathing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Mouth-to-mask ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 7 OPERATIONAL GUIDELINES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Implementation of resuscitation in practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 8 GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 9 REF