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The Incubator's Journal Club — 175 episodes

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#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can the respiratory severity score show us where a baby is heading?

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#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Could a handheld light probe detect NEC before the X-ray does?

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#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Is this the trial that brings probiotics back to the NICU?

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#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Does holding during cooling change NICU outcomes in HIE?

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#458 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should late preterm infants born by cesarean receive prophylactic CPAP?

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#456 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Do These Newborns Have Diastolic Dysfunction, or Just Different Physiology?

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#456 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Why Does a Sicker Mom Sometimes Mean a Stronger Neonatal Heart?

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#456 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Why Is CHD Mortality Rising Again After 15 Years of Progress?

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#456 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Should an Abnormal Brain MRI Change the Decision to Operate in Critical CHD?

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#453 - [Journal Club] - 📌 What Happened to NEC When Centers Stopped Using Probiotics?

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#453 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should We Cool 35 Week Infants with Encephalopathy?

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#453 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can We Rewire a Preterm Baby's Brain for Language?

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#453 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should We Treat the PDA Based on Size Alone? (SMART PDA Trial)

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#450 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Is Dopamine Still Defensible as First-Line for Neonatal Septic Shock?

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#450 - [Journal Club] - 🫀 From The Heart - Does Early Hydrocortisone Actually Move the Needle in Fluid-Refractory Shock?

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#450 - [Journal Club] - 🫀From The Heart - When Nitric Oxide Fails: Is the Left Ventricle the Culprit in Septic Preterm Infants?

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#447 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Is a Five-Day Antibiotic Course Enough to Treat UTIs in the NICU?

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#447 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Does Extended CPAP Reduce Intermittent Hypoxemia in Stable Preterm Infants?

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#447 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Are we missing UTIs in neonates hospitalized for unexplained jaundice?

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#447 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Is phototherapy doing more harm than good in very preterm infants?

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#445 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Are we missing dysphagia in very preterm infants before they leave the NICU?

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#445 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Does an exclusive human milk diet improve growth in very low birth weight infants?

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#445 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can a few drops of breast milk in a preterm infant's nose actually improve cerebral oxygenation?

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#445 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can symptom-based dosing cut hospitalization time for babies with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome?

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#442 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Does combining EEG and MRI improve neurodevelopmental prognostication in preterm infants?

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#442 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Is a low Apgar score more concerning than a low umbilical pH in preemies?

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#442 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Does 24 hour in house staffing decrease physician productivity metrics?

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#442 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Does NIRS guided treatment improve clinical outcomes for extremely preterm infants?

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#434 - [Journal Club] - 📌 LISA and Caffeine Together: What Do the Two-Year Outcomes Actually Show?

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#434 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Could Intranasal Breast Milk Be the Next Adjunct Therapy for HIE?

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#434 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can Ultrasound Help Us Better Identify Surgical NEC?

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#434 - [Journal Club] - 📌 AAP update on therapeutic hypothermia for neonates with HIE

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#431 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can Retinal Images Predict BPD and Pulmonary Hypertension?

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#431 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Rethinking the Link Between BPD Grades and Pulmonary Hypertension

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#431 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should We Stop Routine Car Seat Testing for Preterm Infants?

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#431 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Prophylactic hydrocortisone to improve BPD-free survival?

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#410 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Should We Increase Caffeine Dosing for Extremely Preterm Infants?

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#410 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Does Drying Very Preterm Infants Before Wrapping Improve Normothermia?

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#410 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Is Diazoxide Use Increasing for NICU Hypoglycemia?

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#410 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Prophylactic Acetaminophen for PDA, Does Early Closure Improve Outcomes?

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#399 - [Journal Club] - 📌 From Screening to Solution: Resolving Food Insecurity in Pediatrics

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#399 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Early Vitamin D: Can 800 IU Prevent BPD in Preterms?

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#399 - [Journal Club] - 📌 8 Days vs. 14 Days: Can We Shorten Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Sepsis?

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#399 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Are We Compressing the Wrong Ventricle in Neonatal CPR?

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#396 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Cooling Late Preterms: Higher Mortality in 34-35 Weekers?

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#396 - [Journal Club] - 📌 The 6-Fold Risk of NEC in Growth Restricted Infants

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#396 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Surfactant Thresholds: Is 40% FiO2 as Safe as 30%?

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#396 - [Journal Club] - 📌 TORPIDO 30/60: Is Higher Initial Oxygen Safer for Preterm Infants?

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#393 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Are We Too Busy? NICU Strain and Adverse Outcomes

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#393 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Replacing Sepsis Screens with Serial Physical Exams: Is It Safe?

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#393 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Antibiotic Use in HIE, A Tale of Two Strategies

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#393 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can NT-proBNP Guide Clinical Suspicion of Chronic Pulmonary Hypertension?

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#392 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Do Antenatal Corticosteroids Improve Survival for Babies Born at 21–24 Weeks?

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#392 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Could Longer Caffeine Treatment Reduce Hypoxia and Speed Discharge?

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#392 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Early Outcome Data After Resuscitation at 21 Weeks’ Gestation

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#392 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Is PDA Treatment Doing More Harm Than Good in Preterm Infants?

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#388 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from December 21st 2025

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#388 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Can We Predict Which Extremely Preterm Infants Need Early Cord Clamping?

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#388 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Can Maternal Mental Health Predict Neurodevelopmental Delays in Toddlers?

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#388 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 EBNEO Commentary - Treatment of Hypotension of Prematurity: a randomised trial.

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#388 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Are forces applied to a baby's airway lower with video laryngoscopy?

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#388 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Does Early High-Volume Feeding Improve Body Composition in Preterm Infants?

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#388 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Should Preterm Infants Receive Full Feeds from Day One?

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#371 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from October 26th 2025

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#371 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Risk Factors for NEC in Preterm Infants on an Exclusive Human Milk Diet

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#371 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 EIT-Guided PEEP Optimization in Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

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#371 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Azithromycin for Prevention of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Updated Meta-Analysis

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#371 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Nebulized Nitroglycerin for Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn

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#371 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 The Benefits of Vitamin D Supplementation

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#371 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Renal Replacement in the NICU

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#364 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from October 5th 2025

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#364 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 How Reliable Are Current Screening Tools for Autism in Preterm Children?

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#364 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Are Infants With Critical Congenital Heart Disease at Higher Risk for Cancer in the First Year of Life?

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#364 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 What Do Parents and Practitioners Think About Opt-Out Consent in Neonatal Trials?

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#364 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 How Do Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Compare After Transcatheter PDA Closure Versus Surgical Ligation in Extremely Preterm Infants?

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#364 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Does DHA With or Without ARA Supplementation Improve Outcomes in Preterm Infants? A Meta-Analysis

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#364 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Do Antenatal Corticosteroids Reduce Respiratory Morbidity in Late Preterm Twins?

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#364 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Improving Neonatology Staffing With the INS Toolkit

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#352 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from September 14th 2025

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#352 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Can Continuous Glucose Monitoring Help Manage Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia?

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#352 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 When and How Often Should We Screen for PH in BPD?

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#352 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Does Atropine Improve Safety During Elective Neonatal Intubation?

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#352 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 What is the Best Respiratory Predictor of Heart Rate Stabilization in Delivery Room Resuscitation

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#352 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 What Are Outcomes for Infants Born at 22–23 Weeks Across 11 Countries?

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#352 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Should We Transfuse Cord Blood PRBCs Instead of Adult PRBCs to Prevent Severe ROP?

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#352 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 EBNEO Commentary on Norepinephrine vs Dopamine in septic shock

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#341 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from August 17th 2025

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#341 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Does Sedation Worsen Diaphragm Weakness in Preterm Infants on the Ventilator?

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#341 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Does Counting Ribs on Xray Estimate Lung Volume Accurately?

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#341 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Can Autologous Cord Blood Improve Neurodevelopment in the Extremely Preterm?

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#341 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Should you resuscitate preemies with 100% O2 during DCC?

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#341 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Does ROP Signal Brain Injury in Preterm Infants?

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#341 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 New Fenton Growth Charts!

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#341 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 EBNEO: Is Therapeutic Hypothermia Beneficial to Infants Born Between 33 and 35 Weeks Gestation?

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#331 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from July 20th 2025

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#331 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Higher Carbon Dioxide Thresholds for Late Permissive Hypercapnia in Preterm Infants

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#331 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Clinical Recommendations for Imaging and Follow Up of Perinatal Urinary Tract Dilation

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#331 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Extended Caffeine Treatment in Moderately Preterm Infants Does Not Shorten Hospital Stay

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#331 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Three Neonatal Complications Strongly Associated with Adverse Long Term Outcomes

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#331 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Early Full Enteral Nutrition with Fortified Milk in Very Preterm Infants

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#331 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 School Performance After Neonatal HIE Through Early Adolescence

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#331 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 First Use of Patient Specific In Vivo Gene Editing for CPS1 Deficiency

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#325 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from June 29th 2025

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#325 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Kangaroo Care vs. Conventional Care Meta-Analysis

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#325 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Norepinephrine vs. Dopamine in Neonatal Septic Shock

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#325 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Cold Milk for Infants with Feeding Challenges

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#325 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Teleneonatology and Hypothermia Timing

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#325 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Prophylactic Hydrocortisone and Sepsis Risk

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#325 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Prone Positioning in Preterms: Hypoxemia and Feeding

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#325 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Severe Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality Through Adolescence

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#317 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from June 8th 2025

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#317 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Permissive Hypotension: A novel way to think of hypotension in preterm neonates

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#317 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Shifting outlooks after neonatal encephalopathy in the cooling era

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#317 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 🇨🇦 Consensus on Timing of Brain MRI and Classification of Brain Injury after HIE

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#317 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 The latest meta analysis of early treatment of the PDA

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#317 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 The AAP Report on diagnosis and treatment of the PDA

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#313 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from May 25th 2025

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#313 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Parental use of online health communities in the NICU.

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#313 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Hydrostatic low-volume enemas in low birth weight infants

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#313 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Neonatologists' perceptions of uncertainty

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#313 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 The effect of maternal position on cerebral oxygenation in premature infants during Kangaroo care

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#313 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 A Hospital-Based Initiative for Infant Safe Sleep Practice

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#313 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Diagnostic accuracy of an over-the-counter infant pulse oximeter for cardiorespiratory events.

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#313 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Trajectory of Postnatal Oxygen Requirement in Extremely Preterm Infants.

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#313 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Effect of Postnatal dexamethasone for babies at risk of BPD on later brain volume

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#308 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from May 11th 2025

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#308 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Japan’s Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of 22-31wk Infants

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#308 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 NIRS in the Delivery Room – What’s the evidence?

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#308 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Prenatal Cannabis Use and Neonatal Outcomes

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#308 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Non-Invasive Respiratory Support – Canadians tells us how they really feel!

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#308 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Can Kangaroo Mother Care Improve Human Milk Intake?

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#308 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Sigh Breaths for HFOV: Yay or Nay?

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#308 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 7 vs 14 days of Antibiotics for Culture Proven Sepsis

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#308 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Furosemide for Infants at Risk of BPD: Is it Safe?

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#301 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from April 20th 2025

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#301 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Advancing neonatal autopsy by strengthening physician belief and fostering effective family communication.

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#301 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Azithromycin therapy for prevention of chronic lung disease of prematurity (AZTEC): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial.

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#301 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Funisitis increases the risk of death or cerebral palsy in extremely preterm infants.

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#301 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Cord Blood Treatment for Children With Cerebral Palsy: Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis.

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#301 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Lung Recruitment Before Surfactant Administration in Extremely Preterm Neonates: 2-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

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#301 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Mother's Own Milk Provision During the First 12 Weeks of Life by Gestational Age.

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#301 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Effects of liberal versus restrictive transfusion strategies on intermittent hypoxaemia in extremely low birthweight infants: secondary analyses of the ETTNO randomised controlled trial.

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#297 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from April 6th 2025

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#297 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Whole-Body Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy in Preterm Infants 33 to 35 Weeks' Gestation: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

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#297 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Neonatal intermittent hypoxemia events are associated with later systemic hypertension.

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#297 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Short Duration of Antenatal Corticosteroid Exposure and Outcomes in Extremely Preterm Infants.

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#297 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Evaluating decision regret after extremely preterm birth.

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#297 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Response to Inhaled Nitric Oxide and Mortality Among Very Preterm Neonates With Pulmonary Hypertension.

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#286 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from march 2nd 2025

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#286 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Parental and Medical Classification of Neurodevelopment in Children Born Preterm.

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#286 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Early hydrocortisone verses placebo in neonatal shock- a double blind Randomized controlled trial.

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#286 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 End-Tidal Carbon Monoxide Measurement in Newborns Receiving Phototherapy.

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#286 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Intraventricular Hemorrhage and Survival, Multimorbidity, and Neurodevelopment.

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#286 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Higher versus lower nasal continuous positive airway pressure for extubation of Elbw

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#279 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from February 9th 2025

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#279 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Unbound bilirubin and risk of severe neurodevelopmental impairment in preemies

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#279 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Delivery Volumes of VPT vs Mortality

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#279 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 EBNEO Commentary: Parent-Guided Developmental Intervention for VLBW

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#279 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 2 year outcomes of the HIP trial

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#279 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Effects of pregnancy-induced hypertension on early-onset neonatal thrombocytopenia.

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#279 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Apnea After 2-Month Vaccinations in Hospitalized preemies

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#273 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from January 19th 2024

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#273 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Bemiparin for neonatal thrombosis: dosing and safety

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#273 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Sensory deprivation in the NICU

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#273 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 European practices on Iron supplementation and EPO

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#273 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 EBNEO SEGMENT - How to wean anti-seizure medications

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#273 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Enteral nutrition practices in the US

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#273 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 When to expect BPD patients to come off respiratory support?

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#269 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from January 5th 2024

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#269 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Elective Extubation during skin-to-skin: Feasible?

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#269 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 IVH rates haven't changed, but they are occuring later?

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#269 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Changes in PDA management and BPD rates in preemies 26-28wks

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#269 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Stoma vs. Primary Re-anastomosis for surgical NEC: The STAT Trial

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#269 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Transfusing preemies their own cord blood back - safety and feasibility

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#269 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 New Updates to the CCHD screening algorithm!