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Course for Neonatal Resuscitation in Saudi German Hospital, Life Support Training Center (LSTC)
2005-12-27
The Saudi German Hospital Groups (SGHG) has become the first private-sector health care provider to offer the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)in SGH Life Support Training Center (LSTC).
In Riyadh, the King Fahd National Guard Hospital (NGH) and the SGHG offer the NRP at the hospitalzxc s Life Support Training Center (LSTC).
Since 1987 the NRP has grown to become an internationally renowned educational program with more than 25,000 active instructors and over 1.4 million healthcare providers in the United States.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the NRP has been introduced to at least 70 countries worldwide.
Professor Samir Mossa, research affairs and director and chairman of the LSTC at the SGHG, said the main objectives for this course is to train the staff that deals with neonatal cases.
Their training will follow the standards and guidelines of the AAP and the American Heart Association. Recent studies have shown that more than 90 percent of neonatal babies make the transition from intra-uterine to extra-uterine smoothly.
Ten percent of them, however, require additional assistance to breath at birth.
And a smaller percentage of them need extensive resuscitative measures to survive.
According to Mossa, the studies give hope that the percentage of healthy newborns will increase by using the resuscitation techniques taught in the NRP program.
NGH consultant Dr. Alaa El-Demerdash said, "with adequate anticipation, it is possible to optimize the delivery setting with appropriately prepared equipment and trained personnel who are capable of functioning as a team during neonatal resuscitation."
El-Demerdash concluded that it is possible to achieve this goal by adding more training centers for staff working in this field.
Updating them with the new guidelines and recommendation, he said, will help improve the outcome of more than one million newborns per year.
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