(Providence, RI) -- On Tuesday, May 21, 2024, the American Heart Association donated Infant CPR Anytime Training Kits to Women & Infants Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) allowing new parents and families to learn basic lifesaving skills in approximately 20 minutes. The kit is ideal for NICU hospitals, community groups, new parents, grandparents, caregivers, and others.
The kits will be distributed to parents trained in CPR when they leave the hospital.
“Women & Infants Hospital is grateful to the American Heart Association for thinking of our most vulnerable patients and their families and supplying them with lifesaving kits. This is an invaluable gift to our hospital and to NICU families,” said Jack Tanner, Nurse Director of the NICU and Respiratory Care.
“There is always an immediate community need, with hospitals and Neonatal Care Units needing help providing families with hands-only CPR and choking relief education. Thank you to Navigant Credit Union for providing a grant to the American Heart Association to distribute Hands-Only CPR kits to the most vulnerable families. Lack of CPR training and resources is a health equity issue. To address this inequity, the American Heart Association is committed to having at least one person in every household who knows hands-only CPR or CPR. The American Heart Association welcomes providing these Hands-Only Infant CPR kits to Women and Infants Hospital to share with their patients and families. It could save a life,” said Albert Whitaker, MA, MPH, Community Impact Director, American Heart Association.
The American Heart Association’s Infant CPR Anytime Training Kit contains everything needed to learn the lifesaving skills of infant CPR, choking relief, and injury prevention in about 30 minutes from the comfort of home, work, or in a large community setting. This personal learning program offers an easy and effective training tool for new parents, grandparents, babysitters, nannies, and anyone caring for an infant.
The Infant CPR Anytime Kit is co-branded with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
In addition, the Infant CPR Anytime Kit includes the Infant Anytime Interactive app, which provides a comprehensive, self-facilitated training solution in one web-based app that allows users to elevate their CPR and AED training experience through gamification. This includes calling 9-1-1 and performing CPR on an infant.
The kit includes:
• 1 reusable bag for convenient storage
• 1 Mini Baby® CPR personal manikin
• 1 Mini Baby replacement lung
• Instruction insert with QR code and URL to access the Infant CPR Anytime Community
Resource webpage, which includes:
• Infant CPR Anytime bilingual (English and Spanish) streaming videos in full animation
• Bonus topics: Bonus topics: Infant safety and injury prevention tips with a downloadable checklist (English and Spanish)
• Infant CPR Anytime Interactive app to enhance the training experience; includes a participation badge to share via social media (English and Spanish)
• Online educational reference materials: How to use the kit, skills reminder card, injury prevention checklist (English and Spanish)
• Official Infant CPR Anytime Certificate of Participation (English and Spanish)
About Women & Infants Hospital
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology, and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the ninth largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England with approximately 8,700 deliveries per year. Women & Infants is a Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital and was recently ranked by Newsweek as one of America's Best Maternity Hospitals in 2024. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ranked 11 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 Best Medical Schools specialty ranking.
Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiography; a Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology; and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high-risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology, and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network, and Pelvic Floors Disorders Network, as well as the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group.
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