Brief Simulation Session Boosts EM Residents' Neonatal Resuscitation Skills

A study evaluated whether a 1-hour neonatal resuscitation simulation curriculum could improve skills, knowledge, and confidence among 14 third-year emergency medicine residents, using pre- and post-intervention simulations scored with a validated tool. The study reported significant improvements in total performance scores, bag-mask ventilation, intubation, and chest compression skills, along with faster times to obtaining heart rate, starting ventilation, and intubating, though chest compression timing did not significantly change. The authors concluded this brief curriculum improved skills, knowledge, and self-reported competency, with some confidence gains sustained at year-end, and noted it could help address training gaps and proposed ACGME requirements.

Most relevant for: Emergency medicine residency programs assessing training approaches for neonatal resuscitation competency.

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