Resuscitation
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To assess midwives' baseline cognitive knowledge of evidence-based neonatal resuscitation practices, and short- and long-term educational effects of teaching a neonatal resuscitation program in a hospital setting in West Africa. ⋯ After receiving NRP training, neonatal resuscitation knowledge and skills increased among midwives in a hospital in West Africa and were sustained over a 9-month period. This finding demonstrates the sustained effectiveness of a modified neonatal resuscitation training program in a resource constrained setting.
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To establish a new model of cardiac arrest (CA) in rats by transcutaneous electrical epicardium stimulation. ⋯ The model of CA in rats induced by transcutaneous electrical epicardium stimulation is a stable model that requires low-intensity current and has fewer complications. This model may provide another option for experimental research of CA induced by malignant arrhythmia (especially VF).