Help. She had no team. No crash cart. Just herself and the PDF that had become a ghost in her head.

She tilted his head— sniffing position, don’t hyperextend the infant neck . Two breaths. Her mouth over his nose and mouth. No chest rise. Open airway again. Second attempt. A small rise.

But the PDF had a footnote on page 68: “In resource-limited settings, high-quality CPR is the single most critical intervention.”

She printed the last page of the PDF and taped it to her refrigerator. It wasn’t the algorithm. It was the first sentence of the preface: “This course will not make you a perfect resuscitator. It will make you a prepared one.”