Helping babies breathe can reduce deaths with the right combination of training and expertise

Global gains after Helping Babies Breathe.

Implementation of basic neonatal resuscitation in lowand middle-income settings consistently results in lives saved on the day of birth. Wrammert et al. explore the causes and timing of newborn deaths in a large maternity facility in Nepal before and after the introduction of basic newborn resuscitation through Helping Babies Breathe (HBB), implemented along with quality improvement cycles aime...

Helping Babies Breathe implementation in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

AIM To assess the efficacy and feasibility of implementing Helping Babies Breathe, a neonatal resuscitation programme for resource-limited environments. BACKGROUND This quality improvement project focused on training midwives on Helping Babies Breathe to address high rates of neonatal mortality secondary to birth asphyxia. METHODS The convenience sample was 33 midwives in Zanzibar, Tanzania...

Implementation of the Helping Babies Breathe (hbb) Program in Tanzania

Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) training: What happens to knowledge and skills over time?

BACKGROUND The first minutes after birth are critical to reducing neonatal mortality. Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) is a simulation-based neonatal resuscitation program for low resource settings. We studied the impact of initial HBB training followed by refresher training on the knowledge and skills of the birth attendants in facilities. METHODS We conducted HBB trainings in 71 facilities in t...

Newborn mortality and fresh stillbirth rates in Tanzania after helping babies breathe training.

BACKGROUND Early neonatal mortality has remained high and unchanged for many years in Tanzania, a resource-limited country. Helping Babies Breathe (HBB), a novel educational program using basic interventions to enhance delivery room stabilization/resuscitation, has been developed to reduce the number of these deaths. METHODS Master trainers from the 3 major referral hospitals, 4 associated re...