Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2008;93:F82-F84
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Ethical and legal aspects of video recording neonatal resuscitation
1 Division of Newborn Services, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Australia
3 Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
4 Neonatal Services, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin, Ireland
Professor Colin Morley, Neonatal Services, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, Vic 3053, Australia; colin.morley@rwh.org.au
Accepted 14 November 2007
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Neonatal resuscitation is a common and important intervention. It is also a stressful and sometimes chaotic experience. Recollections of events may be inaccurate and teaching and learning in such circumstances are difficult. Video can accurately document events during delivery room (DR) resuscitation; it can therefore be used to assess compliance with guidelines and the effect of interventions.
In many hospitals photographs or video recordings of infants can only be made with written parental permission. It is difficult and may be inappropriate to prospectively obtain parental permission to video all DR resuscitations. When a high-risk delivery is imminent, parents are invariably anxious and mothers may be in pain or unwell. They may thus be unable to give permission appropriately. If previous permission is needed, it is only possible to record resuscitations where there is considerable advance warning. This seriously limits the applicability of the findings because infants born after an unanticipated
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