

The Incubator
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.
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Jan 16, 2022 • 1h 6min
#039 - Journal Club - Vitamin D reduces BPD?, Altitude negatively affects outcomes, holding babies during cooling, 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!Support the showAs 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!

Jan 9, 2022 • 1h 4min
#038 - Mary Coughlin RN - Trauma informed care in the NICU
Send us a textMary E. Coughlin, MS, NNP, RNC-E, is a global leader in neonatal nursing and has pioneered the concept of trauma-informed, age-appropriate care as a biologically relevant paradigm for hospitalized infants, families, and professionals.A seasoned staff nurse, charge nurse, neonatal nurse practitioner, administrator, educator, coach and mentor, Ms. Coughlin has over 35 years of nursing experience beginning with her 7 years of active duty in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corp and culminating with her current role as president and founder of Caring Essentials Collaborative.Find out more about Mary and this episode at: www.nicupodcast.comSupport the showAs 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!

Jan 2, 2022 • 1h 3min
#037 - Journal Club - The OPTIMIST trial, why infant sex matters for anemia, baby COVID IgG levels after maternal vax, 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. enjoy!________________________________________________________________________________________Show notes and articles can be found on our website: http://www.nicupodcast.comThis podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.Support the showAs 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 26, 2021 • 45min
#036 - End of Year Wrap Up - New podcast, iPad giveaway, and more....
Send us a textThe Incubator end of year giveaway includes books and an 2021 11in iPad Pro. Rules are: Look out for a tweet (https://twitter.com/nicupodcast or @nicupodcast) announcing the giveawayLike the tweetQuote retweet and tag @nicupodcast and a friend of yoursAnd that's all - you're entered in the raffleThe Incubator & Neonatology Review podcast will air its first episode on Jan 3rd and there is a set of signed Brodsky & Martin books to be won. Rules of that giveaway are:Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-incubator-neonatology-review/id1601661028 or https://open.spotify.com/show/1tgViDf3hQF8T9olGQ5wWi?si=8041cf82bc4f4380 Look out for a tweet on 12/29 announcing the new podcast coming from @nicupodcast on TwitterLike the tweetQuote retweet and tag @nicupodcast and a friend of yoursAnd that's all - you're entered in the raffleMore details can be found on our website: http://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. Papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped below.enjoy!________________________________________________________________________________________This podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.Support the showAs 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 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. Support the showAs 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.Support the showAs 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.Support the showAs 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.Support the showAs 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.Support the showAs 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.Support the showAs 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!