SimNewB is an interactive simulator, designed by Laerdal with the American Academy of Pediatrics to meet the training requirements of neonatal emergency medicine and resuscitation courses. With realistic newborn traits and lifelike clinical feedback, SimNewB is ideal for training for the specific challenges of neonatal resuscitation training.

Scalable Training Solution:

Available as a standard package with the option of an advanced upgrade kit to enable instructors to vary simulations from the delivery room to the NICU.

Ease of Use:

Designed to be easily integrated into all neonatal clinical training curriculums. An innovative user interface and scenario design allow instructors to control the Simulator’s responses throughout a training session with the push of a button on the remote handheld controller. Features 6 preset patient states ranging from a vigorous to a compromised newborn.

Simulation Support Materials:

SimNewB includes two scenario packages, the Australian package which was developed in Australia by several key educational organisations and another set of scenarios developed by the American Academy of Paediatrics.

Realistic Anatomy:

The simulator accurately represents a full term, 50th percentile newborn female. Measuring 53 cm and weighing 3 kgs, SimNewB can present as a limp, cyanotic newborn with no vital signs, or as a moving, crying, vigorous newborn.

Patent Umbilicus:

An umbilicus with a life-like pulse can be assessed, cut, and can be catheterized for IV access.

Intraosseous Access:

SimNewB features I/O access in both legs.

Realistic Airway and Breathing Functionality:

• The airway was designed to allow for training in all aspects of newborn airway management, including the use of Positive-Pressure Airway devices, and the placement of ET tubes and LMAs.
• Lung compliance: Instructors can alter the simulator’s lung compliance to challenge providers’ skills in detecting and treating lung compliance changes.
• Realistic chest rise: The chest rise on the simulator can be adapted to be absent or normal, with breathing rates up to 100 breaths per minute.
• Needle decompression: The torso of SimNewB includes functionality to relieve a pneumothorax via needle decompression.