Neonatal Outreach Program
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Neonatal Outreach Program
The Neonatal Outreach Program brings advanced neonatal care expertise to regional centers and builds a strong support network for professionals caring for newborns.
Services
Since 2003, our multidisciplinary outreach team:
- Offers on-site training to enable local healthcare professionals to stabilize critically ill newborns and learn how to care for these children upon their return from the MCH neonatal intensive care unit.
- Offers interdisciplinary training with physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists
- Creates personalized programs and curriculums designed to meet the specific needs of the team requesting it
- Organizes NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) and ACoRN (Acute Care of at-Risk Newborns) training both locally and at the MCH
Team
Our team consists of neonatologists, nursing educators and respiratory therapist educators with specialized training in outreach and simulation education. Thanks to its skills and simulation equipment, our team is able to offer in-situ simulation and workshops tailored to the needs of referring centers.
Medical director
Dr. Bayane Sabsabi
Coordinators
Vanessa Kanaan
Assistant Nurse Manager
Erica Gutsche
Assistant Chief Respiratory Therapist
Workshops and training offered
| Block of (in hours) | |||
| Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) | 8 | ||
| Acute care of at-Risk Newborns Program (ACoRN) | 8 | ||
| Intravenous insertion workshop | 1 | ||
| Umbilical line and intraosseous line insertion workshop | 1 | ||
| Respiratory distress in the newborn | 4 | ||
| Non-invasive ventilation in the newborn | 2 | ||
| Cyanotic congenital heart defects | 3 | ||
| Prostaglandin in cyanotic newborns | 1 | ||
| Intubation workshop | 3 | ||
| Premedication in newborns requiring intubation | 2 | ||
| Surgical emergencies in newborns | 2 | ||
| Newborn with pneumothorax and chest tube | 1 | ||
| Newborns with perinatal asphyxia (neurological evaluation, therapeutic hypothermia) | 2 | ||
| Premature newborns | 2 | ||
| Case review | variable | ||
Testimonials from referral centres
Our team does everything possible to support referring centers in their needs in order to provide the best possible care for newborns across Quebec.