Bradycardic newborn — emergency resuscitation station

Station brief

Format. Emergency-management station, approximately 12 minutes. You are the registrar at the resuscitaire with a scrub midwife and an anaesthetist; the neonatal advanced resuscitator is en route. The assessor runs the clock and feeds new observations.^[1]

Candidate instruction. Lead the resuscitation of a bradycardic term newborn. Verbalise your assessment, your ventilation strategy, your escalation thresholds and your drug orders with doses, and your communication with the team and the parents.^[1][2]