Evidence · Systematic review or meta-analysis
Impact of neonatal resuscitation trainings on neonatal and perinatal mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Delivery room and stabilisation
- Education and simulation
- Families and professional practice
- Medical
- Newborn life support
- Nursing
This paper is from 2017, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
This systematic review and meta-analysis of 20 trials, covering over 1.6 million births, assesses whether neonatal resuscitation training for birth attendants and staff handling newborns reduces stillbirths, neonatal mortality and perinatal mortality. It compares trained versus control groups and pre- versus post-training periods, with evidence quality graded using GRADE. Training was associated with reductions in early and 28-day neonatal mortality and in perinatal mortality. The authors call for further high-quality randomised trials.
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