Video Recording Delivery Room Resuscitation

Video recording provides an objective and reliable method to record and assess delivery room resuscitation. This tool supports delivery room quality improvement projects, research, and education. Initiating video recording entails consideration of patient and staff consent, privacy, data management and security, medical-legal issues, training and implementation, and equipment. In this article, we review these issues and present our institutional experience implementing a delivery room video program as a case example.