Essential Newborn Care

These videos will educate health care professionals on essential newborn care such as important signs, symptoms, risk factor, preventative measures, and healthy measures to take.

Thermal Care and Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)

• Kangaroo Mother Care: More Than Warmth, Kenya & Tanzania: Instructions on thermal care and how the benefits of kangaroo mother care help to decrease rates of mortality, sepsis, and hypothermia.
• Video on KMC (French language with English subtitles, filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo)

Newborn Danger Signs and Antibiotic Administration

• Newborn Danger Signs and Antibiotic Administration, Kenya & Tanzania: To assist healthcare providers in identifying danger signs in newborns and young infants, and how to best prepare and treat babies with antibiotics.
  • Newborn Care: Preparing Injectable Medicines
  • Essential Care for Every Baby Info
  • ECEB Antibiotic Administration
• Newborn Danger Signs, Pakistan: Illustrates newborn health disparities in Pakistan and how newborn danger signs can reduce mortality rates.
  • Warning Signs in Newborns, for mothers and caregivers/Urdu
  • Critical Illnesses in Newborns/Urdu
  • Neonatal Sepsis Risk Calculator

Handwashing for Infection Control

• Importance of Handwashing for Infection Prevention, Pakistan: Illustrates the importance of handwashing to reduce risks in spread of bacteria and viruses among newborns.
  
  • COVID-19 Guidance for Paediatric Services (Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health)
  • Donning of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • COVID-19: Removal and disposal of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Breastfeeding and NG Tube Feeding

• Breastfeeding and Alternative Routes of Feeding (+ COVID Considerations), Kenya & Tanzania: Instructions on how to assist mothers with breastfeeding practices for newborns, how and when it is appropriate to feed newborns breast milk by cup, and how to insert a nasogastric feeding tube until the baby can breastfeed.
  • AAP Guidelines on Breastfeeding
  • Inserting a NG Tube
  • Feeding with a NG Tube
  • Breastfeeding Guidance / Urdu

Neonatal Jaundice

• Neonatal Jaundice, Kenya & Tanzania: Recognition of neonatal jaundice can help to prevent lifelong neurodevelopmental disability and neonatal deaths
• Neonatal Jaundice, Pakistan: Health care professionals will be able to differentiate between physiological and pathological jaundice and treat neonatal jaundice
  • Newborn Early Warning Trigger and Track (NEWTT) – At Risk Infants ( British Association of Perinatal Medicine)
  • NEWTT Chart (British Association of Perinatal Medicine)
  • Jaundice in Newborn Babies Under 28 Days Clinical Guideline

Essential Care for Every Baby

• Essential Care for Every Baby the first 90 minutes, Pakistan: The importance of essential care that babies should receive within the first 90 minutes of birth.