Delivery Room Intervention and Evaluation (DRIVE) Network
American Academy of Pediatrics
Summary
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) convened the multi-center Delivery Room Intervention and Evaluation (DRIVE) Network to establish essential infrastructure to collect, coordinate, and analyze core demographic, resuscitative, and outcome data for an inclusive and diverse population of infants who receive delivery room resuscitation at participating centers. The DRIVE Network consists of delivery hospitals across the United States, covering a range of geographic, urban/rural, racial/ethnic diversity across the country. Together, DRIVE seeks to compare practice-level delivery system characteristics, identify best practices, evaluate outcomes from various interventions, and promote professional development through dissemination via the wide reach of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program.
Description
Basic neonatal resuscitation, which includes drying, warmth, stimulation, suctioning of the baby's nose/mouth as needed, and PPV, comprise the essential skills to which 95% of babies will respond and breathe, yet more data are collected about advanced resuscitative measures that occur in only 3-5% of deliveries. Existing neonatal networks and registries focus on high-risk and premature infants and are not all-inclusive of newborn babies and the basic neonatal resuscitation interventions which save the most lives, but about which little data have been collected in a standardized way. Studying q…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 0–0 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: Inborn infant in receipt of a significant resuscitation intervention (CPAP, PPV, intubation, or CPR) at birth Exclusion Criteria: Not live born
Interventions
- ProcedureReceipt of significant resuscitation intervention at birth
Receipt of CPAP, PPV, intubation, or CPR at birth in a hospital delivery room
Location
- American Academy of PediatricsItasca, Illinois