Neonatal resuscitation is a high acuity, low occurrence event. Limited high-quality evidence informs neonatal resuscitation treatment recommendations. Our group seeks to identify the best methods to monitor and perform neonatal resuscitation, with the ultimate goal of optimizing clinical outcomes for high-risk infants.
We report a longstanding quality improvement project aimed at decreasing intubation for ineffective ventilation for preterm infants after birth
Pediatric Quality and Safety
Heidi Herrick
Reducing intubation for inefective ventilation
We assessed inter-rater reliability of respiratory function monitor (RFM) signal interpretation and demonstrated suboptimal inter-rater reliability of RFM waveform visual assessment to classify inflations.
Archives Disease Childhood Fetal Neonatal Edition
Elizabeth Foglia
RFM Reliability
We collaborated with Shu Yang's materials science lab to engineer a novel mask cushion for neonatal resuscitation.
Advances Materials Technology
Carolyn McGann
Neonatal Mask Cushion
Dr. Foglia is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and an academic neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Foglia’s research aims to characterize the epidemiology of neonatal resuscitation, to improve monitoring and clinical performance during resuscitation, and to identify interventions to prevent mortality and long-term disability in high-risk infants.