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

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...

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

Evaluation of Helping Babies Breathe Quality Improvement Cycle (HBB-QIC) on retention of neonatal resuscitation skills six months after training in Nepal

BACKGROUND Each year 700,000 infants die due to intrapartum-related complications. Implementation of Helping Babies Breathe (HBB)-a simplified neonatal resuscitation protocol in low-resource clinical settings has shown to reduce intrapartum stillbirths and first-day neonatal mortality. However, there is a lack of evidence on the effect of different HBB implementation strategies to improve and s...

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...