

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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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.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!

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/s41372-021-01114-6Support 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!

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.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!

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/fullSupport 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!

Oct 10, 2021 • 1h 5min
#025 - Dr. Jimmy Turner - Burnout and moral injury in medicine
Send us a textDr. Jimmy Turner is a practicing anesthesiologist at Wake Forest. Dr. Turner hosts the physician philosopher podcast and blog where he take an uncurated and unapologetic look into physician life. He also cohosts the podcast Money meets medicine with Ryan Inman where they discuss finance topics that healthcare providers desperately need to know. He is also the author of the book The Physician Philosopher's Guide to Personal Finance. And finally, he is the founder of the alpha coaching experience which helps empower physicians who feel trapped in medicine and helps them practice medicine on their own terms.https://thephysicianphilosopher.com https://thephysicianphilosopher.com/podcasts/the-physician-philosopher/https://thephysicianphilosopher.com/podcasts/money-meets-medicine/https://coaching.thephysicianphilosopher.com/alpha-coaching-experience____________________________________________________________________________________________________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!

Oct 8, 2021 • 20min
#024 - Updates and Announcements (short)
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!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!

Oct 3, 2021 • 1h 11min
#023 - Journal Club - End tidal vs TransCutaneous CO2, Sepsis in ELBW, Precedex vs morphine, burnout in pediatric fellows … 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!________________________________________________________________________________________03:20 - Use of Antenatal Corticosteroids at 22 Weeks of Gestation. https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-advisory/articles/2021/09/use-of-antenatal-corticosteroids-at-22-weeks-of-gestation09:40 - Parent Preferences for Transparency of Their Child’s Hospitalization Costs. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/278439819:55 - Monitoring of carbon dioxide in ventilated neonates: a prospective observational study. https://fn.bmj.com/content/early/2021/08/02/archdischild-2021-322138 31:00 - Medication Use in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Changes from 2010-2018. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)00860-X/fulltext37:50 - Early-Onset Sepsis Among Very Preterm Infants. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/148/4/e202105245646:15 - Dexmedetomidine versus intermittent morphine for sedation of neonates with encephalopathy undergoing therapeutic hypothermia. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-00998-853:40 - Survival prediction modelling in extreme prematurity: are days important? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01208-158:50 - Association of time of first corticosteroid treatment with bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppul.2561062:30 - Burnout and Perceptions of Stigma and Help-Seeking Behavior Among Pediatric Fellows. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/148/4/e2021050393Support 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!

Sep 26, 2021 • 1h 6min
#022 - Dr. Minesh Khashu - NEC research, Fathers in the NICU and the future of neonatology
Send us a textPr Minesh Khashu is a clinical leader reimagining healthcare with a focus on systemic wide transformation, continuous quality improvement and family centered care. Prof Khashu has held multiple hospital, regional and national leadership roles in neonatal and perinatal care. Professor Minesh Khashu is a neonatologist at University Hospitals Dorset. He is the founder of the special interest group NEC (SIGNEC; signec.org). He also works actively on advocating for fathers' involvement in the NICU, and to that end, collaborated on the development of the neonatal DadPad app. https://signec.orghttps://thedadpad.co.uk/neonatal/Check out his NEC paper on the use of bowel US: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32398270/You can get in touch with Dr. Khashu via:Twitter - @mkrettiwtEmail - mineshkhashu@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!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!

Sep 19, 2021 • 1h 6min
#021 - Journal Club - When to trach?, digital tracheal intubation, rapid vs slow feed increase, female blood-donor = better, 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!________________________________________________________________________________________04:10 - Qualitative indications for tracheostomy and chronic mechanical ventilation in patients with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01165-915:40 - Association between Term Equivalent Brain MRI and 2 Year Outcomes in Extremely Preterm Infants: A Report from the PENUT Trial Cohort. https://jpeds.com/retrieve/pii/S002234762100825822:46 - Association of Blood Donor Sex and Age With Outcomes in Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants Receiving Blood Transfusion. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/278371529:30 - Slow advancement of enteral feed volumes to prevent necrotising enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001241.pub838:29 - Neurodevelopmental outcome of preterm infants enrolled in myo-inositol randomized controlled trial. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01018-5.41:20 - Adverse Events and Associated Factors During Intra-hospital Transport of Newborn Infants. https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(21)00859-3/fulltext46:17 - Digital tracheal intubation and finger palpation to confirm endotracheal tube tip position in neonates: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppul.2555152:41 - The DELUX study: development of lung volumes during extubation of preterm infants. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-021-01699-wSupport 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!

Sep 12, 2021 • 1h 2min
#020 - Dr. Erik Jensen - Bronchopulmonary dysplasia research
Send us a textDr. Erik Jensen is an attending neonatologist in the division of neonatology at the Children's hospital of Philadelphia. He is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Jensen’s research seeks to improve the long-term respiratory health of premature infants through: (1) clinical and translational studies that aim to develop evidence-based strategies to prevent and treat BPD; (2) novel characterization of disease severity and phenotypes in BPD; and (3) application of health services research techniques to investigate the association between hospital-level factors and neonatal morbidity and mortality.Dr. Jensen’s research is supported by grant funding from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the American Lung Association (ALA). He is a member of the International BPD Collaborative pharmacology working group and the International Neonatal Consortium (INC) BPD working group. He has received multiple clinical and research awards. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________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!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!