Maternal and perinatal outcomes during the 2020 and 2021 COVID-19 pandemic

Resuscitation is undertaken to establish independent breathing and heartbeat or to treat depressed respiratory effect and to correct metabolic disturbances. For more information on active resuscitation method, see Active resuscitation method in Australia's mothers and babies.

Figure 31 presents data on active resuscitation method. Due to a change in collection of data on resuscitation method, data are available from 2019.

Figure 31: Proportion of live births, by active resuscitation method at birth and state and territory of birth, 2019 to 2021

The proportion of babies who did not require active resuscitation was 80.7 per 100 live births in 2019, 79.7 per 100 in 2020 and 79.0 per 100 in 2021.

It was not possible to undertake linear regression modelling for active resuscitation method, as not enough years of data are available to establish a baseline trend. For more information on modelling the trend over time, see Methods.