• Daniele Trevisanuto, Camilla Gizzi, Claudio Martano, Valentina Dal Cengio, Fabrizio Ciralli, Flaminia Torielli, Paolo Ernesto Villani, Sandra Di Fabio, Lorenzo Quartulli, Luigi Giannini, and Neonatal Resuscitation Study Group, Italian Society of Neonatology.
• Children and Women's Health Department, Medical School University of Padua, Azienda Ospedaliera Padova, Padua, Italy. trevo@pediatria.unipd.it
• J. Matern. Fetal. Neonatal. Med. 2012 Oct 1; 25 Suppl 3: 26-31.

AbstractOxygen has been widely used in neonatal resuscitation for about 300 years. In October 2010, the International Liaison Committee on Neonatal Resuscitation released new guidelines. Based on experimental studies and randomized clinical trials, the recommendations on evaluation and monitoring of oxygenation status and oxygen supplementation in the delivery room were revised in detail. They include: inaccuracy of oxygenation clinical assessment (colour), mandatory use of pulse oximeter, specific saturation targets and oxygen concentrations during positive pressure ventilation in preterm and term infants. In this review, we describe oxygen management in the delivery room in terms of clinical assessment, monitoring, treatment and the gap of knowledge.

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