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Tremendous strides have been made over the past ten years towards optimizing the care provided to newborn infants in the delivery room. Guidelines based historically on physiological reasoning and expert consensus are increasingly supported by higher quality evidence from randomized trials and other clinical studies. This issue of Seminars delivers an evidence-based review of resuscitative interventions for the newborn extending the scope by beginning with the options for in-utero resuscitation and ending with a review of the developments in simulation for teaching resuscitation skills. All the contributing authors are outstanding clinicians who through training, investigative research and clinical practice have developed expertise that either directly or indirectly relates to delivery room resuscitation. Each chapter provides a detailed evidenced based review of a specific topic and the authors have translated the data into potential guidelines for clinical practice. It is our goal that the information contained in this edition will facilitate patient care and serve as a stimulus for future research.