Question about your rooms..

Specialties Ob/Gyn

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On L/D, do you have a separate room to take those really bad kids so that the parents aren't subjected to what is going on over at the warmer? We are redesigning our L/D in the next year and are considering putting in a wall or windowed wall by where the warmer would be.

I work for one the largest L&D facilities in the country. We stabilize babies in the room and use re-sus team for our more difficult babies. The family is more calm knowing than not knowing. Also, for our borderline viability babies that parents decide not to resus, we use comfort measures and keep baby in the room with parents as long as need be (per the family's wishes of course).

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I agree, separation is pretty uniformly a bad thing.

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PS I did make a decision to bring a dad in to see us coding his baby (who did not make it) some years back. Some criticized me mightily for it. Others praised me.

I believe it is current NRP, ACLS, TNCC and other alphabet soup recommendations to allow families to observe all

resuscitative efforts. It is also kindness.

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