South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 61 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
Subchapter 61-16 - Minimum Standards for Licensing Hospitals and Institutional General Infirmaries
Sec2 61-16.1300 - PERINATAL SERVICES
Section 61-16.1311 - Neonatal Resuscitation

Universal Citation: SC Code Regs 61-16.1311

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 9, September 27, 2024

A. Personnel, equipment, supplies, and medications as recommended by the most recent edition of the American Heart Association and AAP Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation shall be readily available in every hospital providing perinatal services.

B. In order to meet the potential need for resuscitation of every neonate, at least one person who has a current provider-designation, as defined by completion of the AAP Neonatal Resuscitation Program, shall be on site.

C. Personnel trained and qualified to perform neonatal resuscitation must be immediately available and not responding from an area removed from the delivery or nursery area.

D. Equipment, supplies, and medications for neonatal resuscitation must be immediately available to the delivery and nursery areas at all times.

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