
The Incubator
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.
Latest episodes

Dec 19, 2021 • 1h 1min
#035 - Dr. Beck & Dr. Sinderby - Inventors of NAVA
Send us a textWe are very excited to welcome Dr. Jennifer Beck and Dr. Christer Sinderby on the podcast this week. They are a husband and wife couple who invented and pioneered one of our most favorite modes of ventilation: NAVA. As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Dec 12, 2021 • 1h 15min
#034 - Journal Club - Brain MRI after NAS, NAVA vs SIMV, Digital lung models and more...
Send us a textAs 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 directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. Papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped below.enjoy!________________________________________________________________________________________Show notes and articles can be found on our website: http://www.nicupodcast.comThis podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Dec 5, 2021 • 1h 1min
#033 - Dr. Perri Klass MD - On the fight against child mortality
Send us a textDr. Perri Klass is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University and Co-Director of NYU Florence. She attended Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Boston. She writes the weekly column, “The Checkup,” for the New York Times Science Section. She has written extensively about medicine, children, literacy, and knitting. Her new book, A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future, is an account of how victories over infant and child mortality have changed the world.Find out more about Perri and this episode at: www.nicupodcast.com________________________________________________________________________________________As 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 directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. enjoy!This podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Nov 28, 2021 • 1h 10min
#032 - Journal Club - Early vs Late TPN, thyroid function in ELBW, HeRO monitoring predicts long term outcomes... and more!
Send us a textAs 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 directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. Papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped below.enjoy!________________________________________________________________________________________Show notes and articles can be found on our website: http://www.nicupodcast.comThis podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Nov 21, 2021 • 1h 7min
#031 - Dr. Kristyn Beam MD & Dr. Andrew Beam - Artificial intelligence in the neonatal ICU
Send us a textJoin us this week for a fascinating discussion about artificial intelligence in neonatology with doctors Kristyn and Andrew Beam. Dr. Kristyn Beam is an attending neonatologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. She is also an Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on machine learning applications for neonatal data with a focus on improving our decision-making in the NICU at the point of care and ultimately improving neonatal outcomes.Dr. Andrew Beam is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with secondary appointments in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research develops and applies machine-learning methods to extract meaningful insights from clinical and biological datasets, with a special focus on neonatal medicine.As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Nov 14, 2021 • 1h 13min
#030 - Journal Club - Risk of cancer after phototherapy, neurodevelopment of IUGR babies, COCHRANE review of early steroids for BPD....and more
Send us a textAs 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 directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. Papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped below.enjoy!________________________________________________________________________________________1:20 - Update on Phototherapy and Childhood Cancer in a Northern California Cohort. https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/148/5/e2021051033/181342/Update-on-Phototherapy-and-Childhood-Cancer-in-a?redirectedFrom=fulltext10:55 - Hour-Specific Total Serum Bilirubin Percentiles for Infants Born at 29–35 Weeks’ Gestation. https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/51949619:55 - Neurodevelopmental Outcomes following Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Very Preterm Birth. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)00667-3/fulltext29:05 - Enteral Iron Supplementation in Infants Born Extremely Preterm and its Positive Correlation with Neurodevelopment; Post Hoc Analysis of the Preterm Erythropoietin Neuroprotection Trial Randomized Controlled Trial. https://jpeds.com/retrieve/pii/S002234762100686740:50 - Caffeine is a respiratory stimulant without effect on sleep in the short-term in late-preterm infants. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-021-01794-y48:06 - Lung Ultrasound for Prediction of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Extreme Preterm Neonates: A Prospective Diagnostic Cohort Study. https://jpeds.com/retrieve/pii/S002234762100661253:45 - Early (< 7 days) systemic postnatal corticosteroids for prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001146.pub6/full61:14 - A novel and accurate method for estimating umbilical arterial and venous catheter insertion length. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01121-7This podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Nov 7, 2021 • 58min
#029 - Keliana O’Mara, PharmD - Pharmacists in the NICU, opportunities and challenges.
Send us a textKeliana O’Mara, PharmD, is a Pharmacist and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Pharmacy Specialist at WakeMed Health and Hospitals. Keliana is a graduate of UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She completed her PGY1 at Moses Cone Health System and a neonatal pharmacotherapy research fellowship at Women’s Hospital of Greensboro. Her areas of research interest include neonatal pain and sedation management, dosing accuracy of medication delivery devices in neonates and pediatrics, neurodevelopmental impact of medication use in neonates, and individualized pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics dosing in neonates.You can reach out to Keliana for collaboration and questions at:keliana.omara@gmail.com___________________________________________________________________________________________As 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 directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. enjoy!This podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Oct 31, 2021 • 1h 14min
#028 - Journal Club - Neonatal Covid, Teaching foreign languages to babies, HIE seizures during rewarming, and more....
Send us a textAs 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 directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. Papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped below.enjoy!________________________________________________________________________________________04:00 - Neonatal MIS-C: Managing the Cytokine Storm. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2021/10/19/peds.2020-04209317:33 - Randomized clinical trial investigating the effect of consistent, developmentally-appropriate, and evidence-based multisensory exposures in the NICU. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01078-729:29 - Association of Increased Seizures During Rewarming With Abnormal Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 2-Year Follow-up. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/278493037:20 - Randomized Trial to Increase Speech Sound Differentiation in Infants Born Preterm. https://jpeds.com/retrieve/pii/S002234762101028346:36 - Language function following preterm birth: prediction using machine learning. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-021-01779-x48:45 - The bacterial gut microbiome of probiotic-treated very-preterm infants: changes from admission to discharge. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-021-01738-656:30 - Prioritization framework for improving the value of care for very low birth weight and very preterm infants. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01114-6As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Oct 24, 2021 • 1h 7min
#027 - Dr. Benjamin Rattray - On the impact of stories from the NICU
Send us a textDr. Benjamin Rattray is a newborn critical care physician in North Carolina where he serves as Associate Medical Director of Neonatal Intensive Care at the Cone Health Women’s and Children’s Center. He completed a pediatric residency and a neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, holds an MBA from LSU Shreveport, and is a Certified Physician Executive. He lives with his wife, three children, and a Golden Retriever in Greensboro, North Carolina.He is the author of the book WHEN ALL BECOMES NEW: A DOCTOR'S STORIES OF LIFE, LOVE, AND LOSS.Learn more at benjaminrattray.com.Purchase Dr. Rattray's book on amazon @ https://amzn.to/3juLpfv____________________________________________________________________________________________________As 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 directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. enjoy!This podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.As 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!

Oct 17, 2021 • 1h 2min
#026 - Journal Club - Detecting bacteremia earlier, viral infections in BPD babies, quality of life for adult premies.... and more
Send us a textAs 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 directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. Papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped below.enjoy!________________________________________________________________________________________02:12 - Health-Related Quality of Life from Adolescence to Adulthood Following Extremely Preterm Birth. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)00326-7/fulltext12:45 - Low Birth Weight as an Early-Life Risk Factor for Adult Stroke Among Men. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)00632-6/fulltext19:25 - Bloodstream Infections in Preterm Neonates and Mortality-Associated Risk Factors. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)00561-8/fulltext31:01 - In‐Hospital Respiratory Viral Infections for Patients with Established BPD in the SARS‐CoV‐2 Era. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppul.2571439:07 - Neighborhood Disadvantage and Early Respiratory Outcomes in Very Preterm Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)00643-0/fulltext47:57 - Family history of asthma influences outpatient respiratory outcomes in children with BPD. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppul.2560350:23 - End-of-Life Care Related Distress in the PICU and NICU: A Cross-Sectional Survey in a German Tertiary Center. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2021.709649/fullAs 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 directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below. Enjoy!