#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, clinic...
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20 of 933 episodes#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 c...
#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. T...
#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 stu...
#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...
#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 t...
#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...
#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 t...
#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 actuall...
#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 gr...
#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 dia...
#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 cardiov...
#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 usi...
#456 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Should an Abnormal Brain MRI Change the Decision to Operate in Critical CHD?
Send us Fan Mail In this systematic review and meta-analysis, Nim and Adrianne dig into just how common brain injury really is in neonates w...
#455 - [Neo News] - Is Communication a Procedural Skill We're Failing to Train?
Send us Fan Mail What if communication were treated as a procedure, something we train for and get feedback on, just like an intubation? In...
#454 - PEEP, Tidal Volume, and Physiology, How Far Has Resuscitation Science Traveled? (ft Dr. Charles Roehr)
Send us Fan Mail How far has delivery room ventilation really come? In this special episode, recorded in collaboration with the Neonatal Res...
#453 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from July 18th 2026
Send us Fan Mail Which PDAs actually need treatment? Can maternal voice and scent shape language outcomes? Should we cool at 35 weeks? And d...
#453 - [Neo News] - 📌 Are You Still Assuming Every Newborn Got Vitamin K?
Send us Fan Mail Vitamin K refusal has crossed 5%. That's one in twenty babies, and the curve is bending the wrong way. Ben and Eli work thr...
#453 - [Journal Club] - 📌 What Happened to NEC When Centers Stopped Using Probiotics?
Send us Fan Mail When the FDA warning landed in late 2023, probiotic use in high-use NICUs collapsed from 86% to under 7% almost overnight....
#453 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should We Cool 35 Week Infants with Encephalopathy?
Send us Fan Mail Cooling works at 36 weeks. At 35 weeks, nobody is sure. Ben brings a new Journal of Perinatology analysis of the National I...