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Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau

A weekly discussion about new evidence in neonatal care and the fascinating individuals who make this progress possible.Hosted by Dr. Ben Courchia and Dr. Daphna Yasova Barbeau.

Episodes

20 of 994 episodes

#476 - Does NIPPV Work or Is It Just Higher Mean Airway Pressure?

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Brett Manley joins Ben for the opening episode of The Incubator’s special series on non-invasive ventilation, recorded...

50:41Nov 2, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - What Does a CPR Coach Actually Do During a NICU Code?

Send us Fan Mail During a code, who is making sure the chest compressions are actually high quality? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, D...

14:51Nov 1, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - How Can the CHNC Mentored Fellows Program Launch a Research Career?

Send us Fan Mail If a preterm infant’s PDA needs closing, does timing matter? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna sits down with th...

21:56Nov 1, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - What’s New in the Latest Neonatal Resuscitation Guidelines?

Send us Fan Mail When a baby with congenital heart disease decompensates in the delivery room, do we still follow NRP? Recording live at the...

34:09Nov 1, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Are We All Reinventing the Same Wheel in NICU Staffing?

Send us Fan Mail What happens when most level IV NICUs are missing four to five advanced practice providers? Recording live at the CHNC Symp...

11:06Oct 30, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Should Every NICU Intubation Start With Video Laryngoscopy?

Send us Fan Mail Why does first-attempt intubation success in the NICU still hover around 40 to 56%? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, D...

15:24Oct 30, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - How AI should support clinicians, rather than replace Them.

Send us Fan Mail When a nurse makes an error with 20 things happening at once, is it really a personal slip, or a system that pushed her pas...

26:20Oct 30, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Why burnout is a Systems Problem and not a personal failure.

Send us Fan Mail Why does one difficult case sometimes feel heavier than it should? Recording at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna sits down with D...

31:55Oct 30, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - How Can Art shape Parental understanding of a fetal diagnosis?

Send us Fan Mail How often have you searched for a parent handout on a fetal diagnosis and found nothing, or something too cold and branded...

20:22Oct 30, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Can Fetal Surgery Prevent Complex Gastroschisis? and how botox is helping in fetal surgery for gastrocshisis.

Send us Fan Mail What if the baby with complex gastroschisis never needed months in the NICU? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna s...

22:13Oct 30, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Day Two

Send us Fan Mail Day two of the CHNC Symposium is here! Daphna sets the stage for a full lineup of keynote speakers sharing the latest in ca...

0:17Oct 29, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - How Many Babies Are We Losing Because No One Can Pick Up a Probe?

Send us Fan Mail When a baby crashes in the NICU, how long will it take before someone in the room can pick up a probe and look at the heart...

24:36Oct 29, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Is Withholding ECMO in CAKUT Still Ethically Justified?

Send us Fan Mail When a baby with a congenital kidney anomaly develops pulmonary hypoplasia and pulmonary hypertension, should ECMO be on th...

17:43Oct 29, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - What Does It Take to Build a Dedicated BPD Unit?

Send us Fan Mail What happens to a baby with severe BPD when the attending changes every two weeks and every plan starts over? Recording liv...

23:36Oct 26, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Can We Make Neonatal Renal Replacement Therapy Simpler?

Send us Fan Mail If your NICU doesn’t offer dialysis, do families still know it’s an option? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna si...

21:40Oct 26, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Is the Prenatal Consult a Checkbox or the Start of a Relationship?

Send us Fan Mail When five specialists sit across from one frightened family, who responds when a parent starts to cry? Recording live at th...

16:59Oct 26, 2026

#475 - 🟠 CHNC 2026 - Kick off!

Send us Fan Mail The Incubator Podcast is coming to you from the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) Symposium in Denver, Colora...

4:01Oct 26, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Can You Prove Your Commitment to Quality Without the Data?

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to back up a claim that your NICU delivers the highest quality of care? Recording live at the CHNC Sympos...

11:36Oct 26, 2026

#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Are we underdiagnosing urinary tract infections in the NICU or missing ROP in Infants Over 30 Weeks?

Send us Fan Mail Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna sits down with two Explore presenters. Dr. Rachel Han of Golisano Children’s H...

15:36Oct 26, 2026

#474 - 🚀 [Tech Tuesday] - mOm Incubators Returns, Now FDA Cleared and in Eight Countries

Send us Fan Mail James Roberts, co-founder and CEO of mOm Incubators, returns to Tech Tuesday almost four years after his first appearance,...

24:31Oct 25, 2026