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Send us a Text Message.Elizabeth Simonton shares her experience of unexpected NICU admission for her full-term baby, Ben. The journey includes pregnancy complications, NICU stay, and the emotional challenges faced by NICU parents. Elizabeth's story highlights the importance of hope, self-care, and community support in the NICU experience.Takeaways:Full-term babies can also require NICU admission due to unexpected complications.Hope and self-care are essential for NICU parents to navigate the ...

Send us a Text Message.In this special episode of the Incubator Podcast, hosts Ben and Daphna are joined by Dr. Alex Stevenson, a neonatologist from Zimbabwe who serves as the president of the African Neonatal Association (ANA) and principal investigator for the African Neonatal Network. Dr. Stevenson shares his journey into neonatology and highlights the stark differences in neonatal care and outcomes between well-resourced private hospitals and less well-resourced public hospitals in Africa...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode of the Incubator, At the bench, we talk with Dr. Krithika Lingappan who is a neonatologist and physician-scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Join us as we hear what inspired Dr. Lingappan to build her cutting-edge research program investigating sex-specific differences in preterm lung disease. She explains that every cell in the lung shows sex bias, including epithelial cells, endothelial cells, and im...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, hosts Ben and Daphna discuss several recent neonatology studies. First, they examine an algorithm developed by Shah et al. for the timely detection of hypothyroidism in preterm infants based on gestational age and TSH levels. Next, Daphna reviews a study by Halling et al. comparing initial endotracheal versus intravenous epinephrine administration during neonatal resuscitation. While endotracheal epinephrine was given faster, IV epinephrine achieved ret...

Send us a Text Message.A practical gestational age-based algorithm for timely detection of hypothyroidism in premature infants.Shah AN, Li W, Zheng D, Lalani S, Kaluarachchi DC, Findley TO. J Perinatol. 2024 May 11. doi: 10.1038/s41372-024-01985-5. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38734804As always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: nicupodcast@gmail.com. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna direct...

Send us a Text Message.Use of Initial Endotracheal Versus Intravenous Epinephrine During Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Delivery Room: Review of a National Database.Halling C, Conroy S, Raymond T, Foglia EE, Haggerty M, Brown LL, Wyckoff MH; American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Resuscitation Investigators.J Pediatr. 2024 Apr 16;271:114058. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114058. Online ahead of print.PMID: 38631614As always, feel free to send us questions, comments, o...