European
Resuscitation
Council
Neonatal Life Support
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Basic Life Support
Routine care
Provide warmth
Dry
Clear the airway if needed
*Consider intubation
Birth
Breathing or crying?
Good muscle tone?
Term gestation?
Amniotic fluid clear?
Give positive pressure
ventilation for 30 s.*
HR < 60 min-1
Ensure effective lung ventilation*
Then add chest compression for 30 s.
Assess breathing, heart rate and colour
Apnoeic or HR < 100 min-1
Further chest compressions
Consider adrenaline
Consider fluid administration
YES
NO
Provide warmth
Position the airway*
Dry, stimulate, reposition
Clear the airway if needed
Assess colour
Consider supplemental oxygen
at any stage if cyanosis persists
Published March 2007 by European Resuscitation Council Secretariat VZW, Drie Eikenstraat 661, 2650 Antwerp, Belgium
Product reference: POSTER-2007-NBLS_A0-EN Copyright European Resuscitation Council
HR < 60 min-1