Maternal-to-neonatal resuscitation handoff
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed29-year-old woman for two-patient ownership, structured maternal-to-neonatal resuscitation handoff, reassessment, and active-risk transfer practice. About 6 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Activate explicit maternal, newborn, communication, and support ownership.
- Connect antenatal, intrapartum, birth, resuscitation-clock, and whole-family context.
- Review ventilation priority, supplied response, and uncertainty boundaries.
- Review structured transfer, receiver readback, and parallel readiness.
- Review the fixed 5-minute qualified-team report.
- Hand off postresuscitation, maternal, family, and outcome risk.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Lee HC, Strand ML, Finan E, et al. Part 5: Neonatal Resuscitation: 2025 American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. Pediatrics. 2026;157(1):e2025074352.
- American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Hospital Care. Standardization of inpatient handoff communication. Pediatrics. 2016;138(5):e20162681.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.