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Table 1 Example scenarios and workshops offered in the supporting the sick neonate course

From: Optimising frontline learning and engagement between consultant-led neonatal teams in the West Midlands: a survey on the utility of an augmented simulation training technique

Example sessions

Themes identified as requiring support (SSN 2015-2018)

• A moderately preterm baby in a LNU develops increased work of breathing and an increasing oxygen requirement on non-invasive ventilator support.

• A term baby with meconium aspiration is hypoxic.

• Dealing with failed resuscitation in delivery suite: support for the mother, family, team and defining local processes.

A term baby with a difficult airway—setting up a difficult airway trolley in your local unit.

Themes identified for the future:

• A moderately preterm baby with respiratory distress due to presumed surfactant deficiency—less invasive surfactant replacement.

• Managing a subgaleal bleed

• Sudden unexpected postnatal collapse

• The blue baby

• Dealing with the extremely premature baby born outside of a maternity service attached to a NICU

Workshops

• Interosseous access for intravenous fluids

• Videolarygoscopy in term and preterm baby

• Seldinger technique chest drain insertion

• Ultrasound-guided peripheral long line insertion 2018 session only)

• Laryngeal mask airway insertion

• The difficult airway (as part of a scenario-based workshop)