VOA标准英语2011--Emergency Birth Training Curbs Infant Mo
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(五月)
Emergency Birth Training Curbs 1 Infant Mortality
Responding immediately when newborns fail to breathe in the critical moments after birth could dramatically cut the number of infant deaths worldwide. That's the focus of a new training program for maternal 3 healthcare workers.
An estimated one million newborns die each year of birth asphyxia, the failure to start or sustain breathing in the first moments after delivery.
If the newborn still does not begin breathing on their own, birth attendants are taught how to place a face mask on the baby's face to initiate 4 respiration 5.
Jeffrey Perlman, professor of pediatrics at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York, says the protocol 6, carried out during the first minute of life, can reduce the newborn mortality rate by 50 percent.
Perlman says it also reduces the number of deaths from stillbirth, which is often simply a case of birth asphyxia.
"When a baby is born not breathing, it is often assumed that that is a stillbirth but that may not be the case," he says. "It may just be that the baby's not breathing but has a low heart rate. And we know that if you can effectively breathe for the baby, and it doesn't take too many assisted breaths, they will start breathing on their own."
Researchers conducting a 2009 pilot project with Helping 7 Babies Breathe in Tanzania taught nurse-midwives, doctors and other medical personnel what immediate 2 steps they should take if a baby is born not breathing, including how to use bulb suction and bag-mask ventilation devices.
Data collected at four hospitals, for three months before and three months after initiation 8 of the program, showed the death rate dropped from 13 deaths per 1,000 births to just over six deaths per 1,000 deliveries.
Perlman is excited by the results. "If we can sustain that reduction, it will represent for the first time a reversal of asphyxia-related birth mortality."
Perlman says the simple strategies to initiate breathing during the first minute of delivery - which he calls "the golden minute" - could go a long way toward helping developing countries meet the United Nations' Millennium 9 Development goal of slashing 10 infant mortality by two-thirds by 2015.
"It's beautiful to actually see the nurse midwives and others taking possession and understanding why it's so important to initiate the breathing within the Golden Minute. They've seen tangible 11 results."
- In executing his functions he is not bound by any legal curbs on his power. 在他履行职务时，他的权力是不受任何法律约束的。 来自辞典例句
- Curbs on air travel were being worked out and would shortly be announced. 限制航空旅行的有关规定正在拟定中，不久即将公布。 来自辞典例句
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- A language teacher should initiate pupils into the elements of grammar.语言老师应该把基本语法教给学生。
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- The statesmen signed a protocol.那些政治家签了议定书。
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- her initiation into the world of marketing 她的初次涉足营销界
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- He stopped slashing his horse. 他住了手，不去鞭打他的马了。 来自辞典例句