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This document provides guidance on performing initial steps of newborn resuscitation. It includes:
1) A performance checklist that guides assessment and intervention based on factors like breathing, heart rate, and tone.
2) Target oxygen saturation levels by age to guide use of supplemental oxygen.
3) Sample scenarios walking through assessing an infant at birth and performing appropriate initial steps or resuscitation based on conditions. The document is intended to help learners practice newborn resuscitation skills.
"I have the catheter secured."
Leader: "Medication is in."
May repeat epinephrine every 3-5 minutes.
HR-80 bpm
SPO2-80%
Evaluates HR and pulse oximetry
Heart rate and oxygen saturation have
improved with epinephrine and effective
ventilation.
Continues PPV, CC, and monitoring
Continue resuscitation efforts until heart rate
is >100 bpm and baby is pink with good tone.
HR-120 bpm
SPO2-95%
Good tone
Pink
Evaluates HR, pulse oximetry, color,
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1) A performance checklist that outlines the steps for positive pressure ventilation including assessing heart rate and oxygen saturation levels and performing corrective actions if needed.
2) Target oxygen saturation levels at different time intervals after birth.
3) A knowledge check section with questions about checking equipment, indications for starting positive pressure ventilation, and signs for discontinuing it.
4) Learning objectives and a sample resuscitation scenario to walk through applying the steps and techniques discussed.
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This document provides guidance on performing initial steps of newborn resuscitation. It includes:
1) A performance checklist that guides assessment and intervention based on factors like breathing, heart rate, and tone.
2) Target oxygen saturation levels by age to guide use of supplemental oxygen.
3) Sample scenarios walking through assessing an infant at birth and performing appropriate initial steps or resuscitation based on conditions. The document is intended to help learners practice newborn resuscitation skills.
"I have the catheter secured."
Leader: "Medication is in."
May repeat epinephrine every 3-5 minutes.
HR-80 bpm
SPO2-80%
Evaluates HR and pulse oximetry
Heart rate and oxygen saturation have
improved with epinephrine and effective
ventilation.
Continues PPV, CC, and monitoring
Continue resuscitation efforts until heart rate
is >100 bpm and baby is pink with good tone.
HR-120 bpm
SPO2-95%
Good tone
Pink
Evaluates HR, pulse oximetry, color,
The document provides guidance on using positive pressure ventilation devices for resuscitating newborns. It includes:
1) A performance checklist that outlines the steps for positive pressure ventilation including assessing heart rate and oxygen saturation levels and performing corrective actions if needed.
2) Target oxygen saturation levels at different time intervals after birth.
3) A knowledge check section with questions about checking equipment, indications for starting positive pressure ventilation, and signs for discontinuing it.
4) Learning objectives and a sample resuscitation scenario to walk through applying the steps and techniques discussed.
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Newborn Care was written for healthcare workers providing special care for newborn infants in level 2 hospitals. It covers: resuscitation at birth, assessing infant size and gestational age, routine care and feeding of both normal and high-risk infants, the prevention, diagnosis and management of hypothermia, hypoglycaemia, jaundice, respiratory distress, infection, trauma, bleeding and congenital abnormalities, communication with parents
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The purpose of this toolkit is to use a brainstorming technique to come up with creative ideas respond to the challenge of providing aftercare support for vulnerable learners. To use the ideas from the brainstorming session to inform the development of a draft set of ideas for an aftercare strategy.
The document provides guidance on newborn care including assessing risk factors prior to birth, performing initial steps like providing warmth, clearing airways, and stimulating the newborn, and guidance on positive pressure ventilation, CPAP, and other resuscitative measures for newborns who require assistance with breathing. It outlines signs that indicate the need for interventions and emphasizes close monitoring of heart rate and oxygen saturation levels to evaluate response to treatments.
This document provides an overview of neonatal resuscitation. It begins with introductions stating that 10% of newborns require some form of resuscitation. It then discusses the importance of resuscitation, risks for breathing problems, and key steps for successful resuscitation including being prepared, knowing procedures, and documentation. The document outlines the initial steps of resuscitation including drying, positioning, clearing airways, and providing tactile stimulation. It provides details on evaluating the need for further resuscitation and describes providing routine care for crying babies or beginning further resuscitation steps if the baby is not crying.
- 130 million infants are born each year, 10% require resuscitation and 3% develop birth asphyxia requiring resuscitation, with 900,000 dying each year. Resuscitation is more often needed for preterm infants.
- The goals of resuscitation are to minimize heat loss, establish normal breathing and lung function, increase oxygen levels, and support adequate blood circulation.
- Risk factors for needing resuscitation include maternal infections, illnesses, trauma during delivery, and fetal conditions like meconium in the amniotic fluid or congenital anomalies.
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Approximately 10% of newborns require some assistance breathing at birth, while less than 1% require extensive resuscitation. The American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics have updated neonatal resuscitation guidelines. Proper equipment, positioning, suctioning, stimulation, ventilation, chest compressions, and medications may be required to resuscitate non-vigorous or depressed newborns. Ongoing assessment of respiration, heart rate, and color determine if further intervention is needed.
This document provides guidance on newborn resuscitation and pediatric advanced life support. It outlines the steps for newborn resuscitation, including ensuring the resuscitation equipment is ready, preventing heat loss, establishing airway, tactile stimulation, positive pressure ventilation, and chest compressions if needed. It emphasizes that most newborns can be successfully resuscitated with bag and mask ventilation alone. The document also provides definitions of newborn, neonate, and infant.
1. Immediate care of the newborn focuses on establishing respiration and maintaining an open airway to enable breathing. Procedures include drying, suctioning the mouth and nose if needed, and stimulating the baby to cry.
2. Routine eye care involves applying erythromycin or tetracycline ointment to both eyes to prevent gonorrhea conjunctivitis.
3. Vitamin K is administered via intramuscular injection to prevent bleeding issues since newborns do not yet produce this vitamin in their intestines.
4. The umbilical cord is clamped and cut after birth, and cared for according to hospital protocol until the cord stump falls off
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This document provides an overview and principles of resuscitation as well as a performance checklist for checking resuscitation equipment. The checklist outlines the essential supplies and equipment needed for newborn resuscitation organized by the steps in the resuscitation process (e.g. warm, clear airway, auscultate, oxygenate, ventilate, etc.). It includes details for each item to ensure proper presence, function, and setup. The goal is to have supplies and equipment checked, functional and ready within 1 minute. The learner uses this checklist to demonstrate their preparation process and the instructor evaluates their performance.
This document discusses endotracheal intubation and laryngeal mask airway insertion for newborn resuscitation. It includes a performance checklist that learners can use as a reference when practicing these skills. The checklist outlines the steps for intubation, including preparing equipment, positioning the baby, inserting the laryngoscope, suctioning meconium if needed, confirming tube placement, and beginning ventilation. It also provides guidance on using a laryngeal mask airway and describes the roles of the intubator and assistant during the procedure.
This document discusses the technique of oocyte pickup (OPU). It begins by outlining the basic principles of the OPU technique, including proper patient and operator positioning, transducer handling techniques, and needle guidance. It then provides checklists for ensuring equipment is properly prepared and functioning before and after the procedure. Troubleshooting tips are provided for issues that may arise during OPU like failure of suction or no oocytes retrieved. Assessing competency and areas for future research in OPU techniques are also discussed.
Neonatal resuscitation follows the ABC approach of clearing airways, initiating breathing, and maintaining circulation. It is performed for newborns who have difficulty transitioning after birth. Approximately 5-10% require active resuscitation. The guidelines outline steps including warming, suctioning, tactile stimulation, positive pressure ventilation, chest compressions, and medications like adrenaline if needed. Oxygen levels and heart rate are closely monitored during resuscitation efforts.
This document provides information on various airway management techniques including:
1) Using proper body substance isolation procedures when performing airway techniques.
2) Identifying when artificial ventilation or assisted ventilations are needed.
3) Using airway adjunct devices like oral and nasal airways when appropriate.
The document discusses in-process and finished product quality control tests for parenterals. It defines parenterals as sterile preparations intended for administration by injection, infusion, or implantation. It describes various types of parenterals including small volume parenterals like ampoules and vials, as well as large volume parenterals. The document then outlines several important in-process quality control tests that are conducted on parenterals to ensure safety, identity, strength, quality and purity. These include tests like content uniformity, leakage, sterility, bacterial endotoxins and clarity. Specific test methods, acceptance criteria and significance are provided for key tests according to compendial standards.
The document discusses birth asphyxia, its causes, signs, and treatment which involves prompt neonatal resuscitation following the PSSR method of positioning, suctioning, stimulation, and repositioning. It also reviews meconium aspiration syndrome and its management, as well as idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome which affects preterm infants and its treatment through oxygen therapy, surfactant replacement, and ventilation support.
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About 10% of all newborn require some assistance to begin breathing after birth, and 1% require extensive resuscitation efforts. Newborn resuscitation cannot always be anticipated in time to transfer the mother before delivery to a facility with specialized neonatal support. Therefore, every hospital with a delivery suite should have an organized, skilled resuscitation team and appropriate equipments available.
Nasal irrigation involves flushing the nasal cavity with saline water to remove mucus, debris, allergens and irritants. It can help soothe inflamed tissue, clear mucus and decrease swelling to improve nasal breathing. Typical methods use a bulb syringe, Neti pot or Waterpik device to gently introduce saline into one nostril, allowing it to drain from the other. Proper cleaning of equipment is important to prevent bacterial growth. Potential risks include irritation, nosebleeds and infection, though nasal irrigation is generally well tolerated when done correctly.
This document outlines the key steps in neonatal resuscitation for newborns requiring assistance to begin breathing or transition to life outside the womb. It discusses factors that may increase the need for resuscitation, important equipment, assessing the newborn using the APGAR score, and the steps of providing warmth, clearing the airway, breathing support, and circulation support like chest compressions and medications if needed. Effective resuscitation in the critical first minute after birth can prevent many newborn deaths from asphyxia globally each year.
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This document provides instructions for inserting an orogastric tube and orogastric tube feeding in infants. It describes measuring and inserting the tube, confirming proper placement, and giving tube feeds. Key steps include measuring the tube length needed for insertion, gently pushing the tube into the stomach until the measurement mark is reached, checking placement by aspirating or injecting air and listening with a stethoscope, and slowly feeding the infant by gravity while closely monitoring for any signs of distress. Care must be taken to insert the tube gently and watch for apnea, bradycardia or other issues during the process.
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This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
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advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
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significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
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'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
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to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
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providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
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changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
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Newborn Care: Skills workshop Respiratory distress and apnoea
1. Skills workshop:
Respiratory
distress and
apnoea
shake test should be done on all infants who
Objectives develop respiratory distress within the first 30
minutes after delivery and in all infants who
weigh less than 1500 g at birth (i.e. likely to be
When you have completed this skills less than 35 weeks gestation).
workshop you should be able to:
Note that the gastric aspirate shake test is
• Perform a gastric aspirate shake test. similar to, but not the same as, the bubbles
• Use an apnoea monitor. test performed on amniotic fluid obtained
• Transilluminate an infant’s chest. by amniocentesis. In the bubbles test the
• Needle a pneumothorax in an emergency. amniotic fluid is not diluted and a different
• Insert a chest drain (if adequately trained). concentration of alcohol is used.
10-a The equipment needed for the gastric
aspirate shake test
GASTRIC ASPIRATE
1. A F5 or F6 nasogastric tube
SHAKE TEST 2. Three 1 ml plastic syringes
3. A clean glass test tube
In the fetus, lung fluid is either swallowed or 4. An ampoule of normal saline
passes out of the mouth into the amniotic 5. A bottle of 95% alcohol with a tight-fitting
fluid. A sample of gastric aspirate collected top
from a newborn infant within 30 minutes 6. A rubber stopper or piece of Parafilm
after delivery consists mainly of swallowed
lung fluid and amniotic fluid. Therefore, 10-b Collection of the gastric aspirate
gastric aspirate can be used to assess whether
surfactant is present in the infant’s lungs at A nasogastric tube is passed after delivery
birth. If the gastric aspirate shake test indicates and before the first feed is given. The
that surfactant is present, then the infant’s stomach contents are aspirated into a plastic
lungs are mature and hyaline membrane syringe. The sample of gastric aspirate must
disease is very unlikely. The gastric aspirate be collected within 30 minutes of birth.
Thereafter the stomach contents consist of
2. SK ILLS WORKSHOP : RESPIRATOR Y DISTRESS AND APNOEA 199
gastric secretion rather than swallowed lung 3. If bubbles are present right across the
fluid and amniotic fluid and, therefore, may surface of the fluid, then the test is positive.
give an incorrect result with the shake test. This indicates that the lungs are mature
and are producing adequate amounts of
10-c The method of doing the shake test surfactant. Any respiratory distress that the
infant might develop is very unlikely to be
1. Inject 0.5 ml of gastric aspirate from the due to hyaline membrane disease.
syringe into a clean glass test tube.
2. Aspirate 0.5 ml of saline into a second
clean syringe and inject the saline into the
test tube containing the gastric aspirate.
3. Close the end of the test tube with a rubber
stopper or piece of Parafilm and shake the
1 ml mixture of gastric aspirate and saline
well for 15 seconds. Remove the stopper or
Parafilm.
4. Aspirate 1 ml of 95% alcohol into the
third clean syringe and inject the alcohol
into the test tube containing the gastric
aspirate-saline mixture.
5. Again close the test tube with the stopper
or Parafilm and shake the 2 ml mixture of
gastric aspirate, saline and alcohol well for
a further 15 seconds. Negative Intermediate Positive
6. Let the test tube stand upright for
15 minutes and then examine the surface Figure 10-A: The method of evaluating the shake
of the fluid to decide the result of the test.
shake test.
10-d Evaluating the result of the shake test 10-e Problems with the shake test
The result of the shake test is determined by 1. The gastric aspirate must be collected
observing the number of bubbles present on within 30 minutes after delivery. If
the surface of the mixture after it has been collected later than this the shake test
allowed to stand for 15 minutes: may give an incorrect result. If a preterm
1. If no bubbles are present then the test infant or infant with respiratory distress
is negative. This result indicates that the is to be transferred to a level 1 or 2 unit, it
infant’s lungs are probably immature is advisable to collect a sample of gastric
and that very little surfactant is present. aspirate soon after delivery and to send it
As a result, the infant is at high risk of with the infant.
developing hyaline membrane disease. 2. The exact amount of gastric aspirate, saline
2. If bubbles are seen around the top of the and alcohol must be measured correctly.
fluid but not enough bubbles are present 3. The test tube must be clean.
to completely cover the surface, then the 4. The test tube must be closed with a rubber
test is intermediate. This result indicates stopper or piece of Parafilm before shaking.
that only some surfactant is present in the Covering the opening with your finger may
lungs and the infant may still develop mild give a false positive result, which means
hyaline membrane disease. that no surfactant is present even though
the test is positive.
3. 200 NEWBORN CARE
5. The alcohol must be 95%. Always close the to activate the alarm can be set at 10, 15 or
top of the alcohol bottle immediately after 20 seconds. Usually the monitor is set to alarm
use as this keeps the alcohol concentration after 20 seconds of apnoea.
constant. If the top is left off, the alcohol
2. The sensor pad
absorbs moisture from the air. As a result,
the concentration of the alcohol will fall. The infant lies prone (chest down) or supine
6. You must always mix the gastric aspirate (back down) on a flat, solid sensor pad. The
with saline first before adding the alcohol modern sensor pad is easier to use than the
or you will get an incorrect result. earlier air-filled mattress. In some models skin
7. You must wait for 15 minutes before electrodes are used instead of a sensor pad. The
reading the result. Examining the number sensor pad should be cleaned with a detergent
of bubbles earlier may give a false positive solution before it is used on another infant.
result. Reading the result too early is the
3. The lead connecting the sensor pad to the
commonest mistake made when doing the
monitor unit
shake test.
8. If the gastric aspirate is blood or meconium The monitor unit is attached to the sensor pad
stained you should not do the shake test as by a thin wire lead. If the infant is in a closed
the result may be falsely positive. incubator, take the connecting lead out of an
incubator port. Do not let the hood rest on the
lead as this may damage the lead.
USING AN APNOEA
10-g Using an apnoea monitor
MONITOR
The method of using an apnoea monitor with
An apnoea monitor (or apnoea alarm) is an a sensor pad is as follows:
electronic apparatus used to detect apnoea in 1. Plug the connecting lead of the sensor pad
a newborn infant. If the infant stops breathing into the monitor.
the monitor will alarm to attract the attention 2. Plug the power cable into the power source
of the nursery staff. The apnoea can then be and switch the wall plug on.
treated immediately. 3. Place the sensor pad in the incubator or
bassinet so that it will lie under the infant’s
10-f The components of an apnoea monitor chest or back. Cover the pad with a thin
sheet or blanket only.
A number of different types of apnoea monitor
4. Set the apnoea period to 20 seconds.
are available but they all have a similar function
5. Switch on the monitor.
and consist of 3 parts:
6. Make sure that the monitor registers the
1. The monitor unit infant’s breathing.
7. The monitor can be tested by removing the
The monitor unit is powered by electricity
sensor pad from under the infant. After
via a power cable which is plugged into a
20 seconds the alarm should register.
wall plug. It also has a battery which should
be replaced periodically. The monitor can be
switched on or off. A jack is present, usually 10-h Common problems with an apnoea
at the back of the monitor, to plug in the monitor
lead from the sensor pad. When the monitor 1. If the infant is only partially on the pad
alarms a red light flashes and a high-pitched or has moved off the pad, the alarm will
noise is made. Some monitors also indicate repeatedly trigger.
the respiratory rate or have a yellow light 2. If the apnoea period is set at less than
that flashes with each breath. At the back of 20 seconds the alarm may trigger
the monitor the duration of apnoea needed
4. SK ILLS WORKSHOP : RESPIRATOR Y DISTRESS AND APNOEA 201
repeatedly during normal periodic 3. Switch on the cold light to the brightest
breathing. setting.
3. Often the alarm is switched off while 4. Hold the light firmly against the infant’s
the infant is removed for a feed and is skin in line with the axilla (armpit) and
not switched on again when the infant is about halfway down the chest.
placed back in the incubator or bassinet. 5. Observe whether that side of the chest
4. If the sensor pad is covered with a thick transilluminates well (lights up). Normally
blanket it may not detect breathing only the skin about 1 cm around the light
movements and, therefore, may trigger will transilluminate and form a halo.
repeatedly. 6. Repeat by holding the light against the
infant’s skin in the midclavicular line and
Examine the apnoea monitors in your nursery
halfway down the chest.
and identify the different components. If you
7. Always transilluminate both sides of
are still not able to operate an apnoea monitor
the chest and compare the degree of
after completing this skills workshop, please
transillumination on both sides.
get a senior staff member or maintenance
technician to help you. If only one side of the chest transilluminates
well then a pneumothorax is present on
that side of the chest. If both sides of the
TRANSILLUMINATION OF chest transilluminate equally poorly then a
pneumothorax is probably not present. A
THE CHEST small pneumothorax may be missed especially
if it is not possible to darken the nursery and
Transillumination of the chest is a simple and the infant is term with thick skin.
easy method of diagnosing or excluding a large
pneumothorax. It is far quicker than waiting An obvious pneumothorax on trans-
for a chest X-ray. illumination should be treated immediately.
Do not wait for a chest X-ray to confirm
the diagnosis. However, if the result of the
10-i The transillumination light
trasillumination is uncertain and the infant is
A very bright, mobile, cold light (fibre-optic not severely distressed a chest X-ray should
light) is needed. The light shines through the first be asked for.
end of a flexible tube. The tube is attached to
a light box which is powered by a cable from
an electrical wall plug. Although expensive, a EMERGENCY NEEDLING OF
transillumination light is an important piece of
equipment in a level 2 or 3 nursery. A PNEUMOTHORAX
10-j Method of chest transillumination Inserting a needle to relieve a pneumothorax is
an emergency procedure which should only be
1. Make the nursery as dark as possible done if you are certain that a pneumothorax
by switching off the ceiling lights and is present, if you have been trained in the
closing the curtains or blinds. If this is not procedure and if the infant has severe
possible, use a black cloth of 1 metre by respiratory distress.
1 metre. The cloth can be used to cover
the infant and the examiner’s head thereby This procedure relieves the severe respiratory
producing a miniature dark room. distress caused by a pneumothorax and is
2. Turn the infant into the supine position used while preparations are being made to
(chest upwards). insert a chest drain. Chest needling should
only be done if the infant’s life appears to be
in danger. It should not be used to diagnose a
5. 202 NEWBORN CARE
pneumothorax as the needle may puncture the should only be done by a doctor who is trained
lung and actually cause a pneumothorax. and experienced in the technique. However,
this section should still be read even if you are
10-k The method of needling a not going to learn the procedure.
pneumothorax Inserting a chest drain is the correct way to
1. Clean the skin over the side of the infant’s treat most pneumothoraces as needling the
chest with an alcohol swab. chest usually only improves the respiratory
2. Attach a 20 ml syringe to a scalp vein set. distress for a short time. Inserting a chest drain
3. Insert the needle in the midaxillary line is a sterile procedure and, therefore, the person
between the forth and fifth intercostal must scrub as for any minor surgical operation.
spaces. Push the needle through the skin The surgical equipment needed should be kept
and just above a rib. Remember that the in a sterile pack and stored in the nursery so
blood vessels lie immediately below the that it is always available in an emergency.
ribs. When the needle enters the pleural
space you will feel a ‘pop’ as the needle 10-l Equipment needed to insert a chest
punctures the pleura. Do not push the drain
needle in any further.
1. Mask, gloves and a sterile drape
4. Aspirate as much air as possible. If the
2. Chlorhexidine (Hibitane) and providone
syringe fills up with air, pinch closed the
iodine (Betadine) solution together with 2
tubing of the scalp vein set, detach and
small dishes and small swabs
empty the syringe, and again aspirate as
3. A pointed scalpel blade
much air as possible. Rather than having
4. A small pair of curved forceps (mosquito
to remove the syringe, a 3-way tap can be
forceps)
used to expel the aspirated air. The infant’s
5. A large pair of straight artery forceps
clinical condition should improve rapidly
6. 000 suture material attached to a curved,
and the oxygen saturation increase after
cutting needle
the air is aspirated. Some people prefer to
7. A needle holder
hold the end of the scalp vein set under
8. F10 and F12 intercostal drains. A trochar is
water in a small plastic dish rather than use
not needed. If present, it must be removed
a syringe. If a pneumothorax is present a
and discarded.
gush of air escapes into the water followed
9. A sterile suction bottle with plastic tubing
by a steady stream of bubbles.
to connect to the chest drain. A plastic
5. Once the air has been aspirated from the
connector should be inserted into the
pneumothorax remove the needle before it
end of the tubing so that it can be easily
damages the underlying lung. If the infant’s
attached to the intercostal drain.
respiratory distress again gets worse before
10. If local anaesthetic is to be used, an
a chest drain can be inserted, repeat the
ampoule of 1% lignocaine, a 2 cm syringe
above procedure.
and a 26 gauge needle will be needed.
6. A chest X-ray should always be done after
the chest has been needled to confirm or
exclude the presence of a pneumothorax. 10-m Method of inserting a chest drain
1. First prepare the underwater drainage
bottle. Half fill with sterile water so that
INSERTING A CHEST the drainage pipe is about 1 cm below the
DRAIN surface. Make sure that the connecting
piping is correctly fitted to the bottle, and
Treatment of a pneumothorax by inserting that the plastic connector is in place. Do
a chest drain is an invasive procedure and not attach to the suction apparatus yet.
6. SK ILLS WORKSHOP : RESPIRATOR Y DISTRESS AND APNOEA 203
2. The infant should lie supine (chest up) with drain, into the pleural space. If you are still
the side of the pneumothorax facing the not successful, enlarge the incision in the
operator. Undress the infant and keep the skin and try again. Do not use the trochar.
infant warm in an incubator, or preferably 8. When the chest drain is correctly placed
under a radiant warmer. The infant’s arm remove the forceps.
should be held above the head to expose 9. Attach the chest drain to the connecting
the side of the chest. It is useful to place a tubing. The drain should ‘swing’ well if
small, folded towel under the infant’s back correctly in place. If not, remove the drain
to turn the side of the chest slightly away and insert it again.
from the operator. Usually the infant will 10. Often the skin incision will not need to be
need oxygen via a face mask or head box. sutured closed. If the incision was too big,
3. The operator should mask, scrub and wear however, close it with 1 or 2 interrupted
surgical gloves. Clean the side of the chest sutures. There is no need to tie the sutures
with chlorhexidine and alcohol. to the drain or to put on a dressing. Never
4. If local anaesthetic is used, infiltrate the use a purse-string suture as it may cause
skin between the forth and fifth rib in the necrosis of the trapped skin.
midaxillary line. Do not use more than 11. Fix the chest drain in place with a ‘soccer
0.5 ml of 1% lignocaine. If possible, always post’ made of adhesive strapping. (This
use local anaesthetic. method is fully explained in the skills
5. Make a small (0.5 cm) incision parallel workshop in chapter 8).
and between the forth and fifth rib in the 12. When the drain has been successfully
midaxillary line. Make sure that you are inserted, obtain a chest X-ray to determine
at least 2 cm away from the nipple as the whether the pneumothorax has been
breast bud may be damaged. A common completely emptied. If the infant is on
mistake is to make too long an incision a ventilator or if the pneumothorax is
which later has to be stitched closed. not completely emptied, the underwater
6. By repeatedly opening and closing the small, drainage bottle should be suctioned at
curved forceps push through the intercostal –200 cm water pressure.
muscle just above the forth rib. Remember
Usually the chest drain is left in place until
that the blood vessels lie immediately below
the drain fills with serum and does not swing.
the rib. A ‘pop’ will be felt when the pleura
Then clamp the drain for a further 6 hours.
is pierced. Do not remove the forceps when
If the infant’s clinical condition remains
the pleural space is entered.
stable, the drain can be removed. Loosen the
7. With your other hand pick up the chest
strapping and remove any sutures present.
drain. Open the small forceps as wide
Pull the drain out and immediately cover the
as possible and push the tip of the drain
hole with a piece of sterile gauze that has been
through the hole in the chest wall. Insert
smeared with a thin layer of Vaseline. This
the drain 5 cm. If you are not able to
provides an airtight seal and prevents an air
get the drain in place, remove the small
leak through the incision. The gauze should
forceps and use them to pick up the drain
be held in place for 24 hours with a strip of
so that the tip of the forceps is parallel to
strapping. Usually there is no need to close the
and holds the tip of the drain. Now push
incision with a suture. The wound should heal
the tip of the forceps, still holding the
rapidly and leave only a small scar.