Helping premature infants in Uzbekistan to survive – and thrive
Participation in an international study on delivery room management has given neonatologists in Uzbekistan the chance to hold up a mirror to their own practice. The results have triggered a process of learning and change.
Over the past two years, Professor Rüdiger has had the opportunity to share some of what he has learned about introducing changes into the practice of neonatal medicine with a group of neonatologists from Uzbekistan who are in the midst of a similar transition in their own institutions. One aspect of the partnership has seen neonatal teams from six perinatal centers across Uzbekistan join an international research collaboration on delivery room management – the Survey on Currently Applied Interventions in Neonatal Resuscitation (SCIN) study.