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| Dr Malhotra |
A generous
donation by a major manufacturer of medical equipment and medical training
products will enhance a teaching and research program in neonatal resuscitation
in India.
Recipient of
the 2016 RACP Eric Burnard Fellowship, Dr Atul Malhotra is developing an
educational program for health workers in rural Punjab to recognise perinatal asphyxia (oxygen deprivation) and hypoxic
ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
“Laerdal
Australia has donated an ex-demonstration model of a neonatal resuscitation
baby simulator for the education training programs I will be running later
this year in Punjab,” said Monash University researcher and Monash Children’s
Hospital neonatologist, Dr Malhotra.
Laerdal
Medical manufactures products for first aid and emergency medicine, including
CPR manikins and patient simulators.
Dr Malhotra’s
program will include a "train the trainer" workshop for local health leaders
in neonatal resuscitation.
“I intend to
leave this simulation model behind for the trainers so that they can continue
training staff after I have left.”
“The
trainers will be working under the supervision of local collaborator, Associate
Professor Tarundeep Singh, School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh.”
As well as
training medical leaders, Dr Malhotra will run a workshop for local skilled birth
attendants in primary health centres in rural Punjab.
“This
simulation model will be critical for the "hands on" skill
development of birth attendants to learn vital resuscitation skills such as
bag/valve mask ventilation and chest compressions—it also facilitates running
"mock" team scenarios of neonatal resuscitation.”
Laerdal is a
partner in the global public-private alliance, "Helping Babies
Breathe", a training program that teaches the essential skills of caring
for healthy babies and assisting babies that do not breathe on their own after
birth.
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