Giving the breath of life to infants

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) An innovative new resuscitation technique being tested in a clinical trial in Edmonton is giving hope to parents whose children need medical assistance moments after being born. Every year, hundreds of thousands of babies across the globe die after resuscitation efforts fail. The new technique, pioneered in Edmonton, shows survival rates of infants could more than double using the new method of resuscitation as compared to the conventional ...