This was rolled-out in 2010 by the American Academy of Paediatrics in partnership with some United States government agencies and a few international NGOs. It is a simplified form of Neonatal Resuscitation Programme evidence-based curriculum that targets the frontline healthcare worker.
Its main teaching aids include the providers manual, action plan – an algorithm in green, yellow and red indicating, need for routine care, resuscitation and referral to advance care respectively. The practicals use inflated or water-filled dolls (neonatalies) which can be made to have a chest rise when ventilated, has device to elicit umbilical cord pulsation and crying device. This training can be adapted for on-the-job training as the time affords and could run for 6 hours to 2 days depending on the level of trainees and at the level of providers and facilitators. Its highlight is the Golden Minute – 60 seconds by which the baby is breathing or being helped to breathe with the ambu bag.