·        -  Trained health professionals are probably more likely to resuscitate newborn babies correctly.

·         -  Newborn babies may be less likely to die after resuscitation from trained health professionals.

·         -  Health professionals are more likely to be well prepared to resuscitate newborn babies after training.

Background

Neonatal resuscitation is a skilled task, and health workers needs proper training. As babies need to be resuscitated quickly, the health worker needs to know how to prepare for this before the baby is born. For instance, he or she needs to know how to prepare the room and proper equipment. Health workers in poor countries often do not have these skills, and these babies are more likely to die. Several training programmes have been developed to teach health workers how to give emergency care to seriously ill babies and children but most of these have been developed and tested in wealthy countries.