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#462 - [Neo News] - 📌 What Does The Pitt Get Right About Boundaries in Medicine?

Send us Fan Mail A medical student on The Pitt finishes her shift, is asked to stay, and tells her supervisor to learn some boundaries. The internet did not let it go. B

#462 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Dexamethasone Eye Drops Prevent Treatment Requiring ROP?

Send us Fan Mail Steroids again? This time in the eye. Daphna brings the DROP-ROP trial from JAMA Pediatrics, a double-masked randomized study across fourteen Swedish ce

#462 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Continuous vs Bolus Feeding, Which One Grows Babies Better?

Send us Fan Mail Every unit has a bolus camp and a continuous camp, and both are usually dug in. Ben brings a single center non-inferiority trial from India, published i

#462 - [Journal Club] - 📌 After HEAL Does a Second Trial Close the Book on EPO?

Send us Fan Mail We already had HEAL, so why run this trial at all? Daphna brings PAEAN from JAMA Pediatrics, a phase three trial across 24 units in Australia, New Zeala

#462 - [Journal Club] - 📌 After LISA Does CPAP Perform as Well as NIMV Below 30 Weeks?

Send us Fan Mail Most trials comparing CPAP and NIMV leave a lingering doubt about whether surfactant explained the difference. This one does not. Ben brings a multicent

#461 - [🫀 From The Heart] - Blue Baby, Gray Baby: Severe LV Dysfunction Masquerading as PPHN

Send us Fan Mail A term newborn looks fine on mom's chest, then crashes within minutes. By the time transport arrives, there's a pH of 6.9, a lactate over 10,

#460 - Reading as a neuroprotective intervention

Send us Fan Mail Why does reading in the NICU still feel optional when the evidence says otherwise? Daphna sits down with Paige Pedroli, author of the Nic Zoo book and t

#459 - Which AI tools are actually ready for the NICU right now?

Send us Fan Mail Is your EMR actually built for neonatology, or just retrofitted to survive it? Ben sits down with Dr. Lindsey Knake, clinical assistant professor and as

#458 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from August 15th 2026

Send us Fan Mail The full week of Journal Club in one place. Monday, the PLaNT trial of prophylactic CPAP for late preterm infants born by cesarean, with senior author D

#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can the respiratory severity score show us where a baby is heading?

Send us Fan Mail The respiratory severity score is one multiplication most of us already do in our heads, mean airway pressure times FiO2. This week Dr. Dinushan Kaluara

#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Could a handheld light probe detect NEC before the X-ray does?

Send us Fan Mail NEC still tends to announce itself on an X-ray, usually later than we want. This week Daphna reviews the first-in-human study of broadband optical spect

#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Is this the trial that brings probiotics back to the NICU?

Send us Fan Mail Probiotics left US NICUs after the FDA reclassified them, and NEC rates went up. This week Ben reviews the Connection Study, a 2,158 infant phase 3 tria

#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Does holding during cooling change NICU outcomes in HIE?

Send us Fan Mail Parents of babies undergoing therapeutic hypothermia often wait days before they can hold their child, and many never get the chance during cooling at a

#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should late preterm infants born by cesarean receive prophylactic CPAP?

Send us Fan Mail Late preterm babies born by cesarean fill our NICUs, and most of them are there for respiratory distress that resolves in a day or two. Could 20 minutes

#457 - Are We Rethinking When and How We Give Surfactant (ft Dr. Roger Soll)

Send us Fan Mail When is surfactant "early," and when is it too early, or too late? In this second installment of our two-part series with the Neonatal Resuscitation Sym

#456 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from August 1st 2026

Send us Fan Mail Which babies with critical congenital heart disease face the highest risk of brain injury, and does earlier surgery actually help? Why is infant CHD mor

#456 - [Neo News] - 📌 Why Did the US Fund a Hepatitis B Trial That Withheld the Birth Dose?

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Neo News, Ben and Eli break down a troubling story in vaccine policy: an unsolicited $1.6 million CDC grant funding a Danish research

#456 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Do These Newborns Have Diastolic Dysfunction, or Just Different Physiology?

Send us Fan Mail In this prospective study, Adrianne and Nim dig into an area with almost no normative pediatric data: right ventricular diastolic function. Comparing 57

#456 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Why Does a Sicker Mom Sometimes Mean a Stronger Neonatal Heart?

Send us Fan Mail In this small prospective pilot study, Adrianne and Nim explore a domain rarely discussed on rounds, how a mother's cardiovascular function in pree

#456 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Why Is CHD Mortality Rising Again After 15 Years of Progress?

Send us Fan Mail In this retrospective national study, Adrianne and Nim look at 25 years of congenital heart disease mortality in the US using CDC WONDER data. Infant mo