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#BabiesNeedScience - join this campaign kicked off by AAP

The American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP calls NICU staff, researchers, families and all others policy makers, kicking off the #BabiesNeedScience campaign on April 25! While the initiative seems to originate in the current US context, we all know that science is essential for improving public health of infants world wide. As an organisation connecting health care professionals in a global network, we share the values behind this campaign. It may seem like an obvious position that science is instr
Advocacy

#BabiesNeedScience - join this campaign kicked off by AAP

The American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP calls NICU staff, researchers, families and all others policy makers, kicking off the #BabiesNeedScience campaign on April 25! While the initiative seems to originate in the current US context, we all know that science is essential for improving public health of infants world wide. As an organisation connecting health care professionals in a global network, we share the values behind this campaign. It may seem like an obvious position that science is instr
Interview

Building Bridges Between Parents and Neonatal Care Professionals: An Interview with Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth

Building Bridges Between Parents and Neonatal Care Professionals: An Interview with Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth The Close Collaboration with Parents training program has been transforming neonatal care across multiple countries. As the program prepares for its first international conference in Lithuania, we spoke with Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth, one of the program's creators, about its origins, evolution, and future. What inspired the creation of the Close Collaboration with Parents program? "Three thi
Wrap

Launching into 2025: Community First

As we step into 2025, many of you have already noticed the major updates rolling out across our 99nicu forum. These improvements are designed to enhance usability and foster connections within our community. While we continue refining the platform, we also want to take a moment to appreciate the incredible projects of 2024. That’s why we’re revisiting this wrap-up—to celebrate the progress we’ve made together and set the stage for another impactful year ahead. 2024: It's a Wrap! The Future of Ne
Upgrade

Major update of the 99nicu web site

Exciting times are ahead of us! We are approaching the Big Leap upgrading to our community software to a new version. This is a major upgrade, but we hope there won't be too much issues while doing it. In addition to lots of tech stuff, the look and feel will also change, especially on your mobile  😀 In case the site drops offline 🫣 we will share updates on Mastodon, BlueSky, and LinkedIn. We are yet to finalize the timeline for doing this. You will know it when you see it!
neonatal hematology

PDA: meds/surgery/conservative

Hi there seem to be enough evidence about the lack of beneficial effect of treatment of the PDA! The approach to a hemodinámica significant ductus has changed significantly in the last 10 years.  Years ago we weee so obsessed that indocin prophylaxis was standard in many NICUs and early treatment became standard across the board.  I remember going to Dr Clayman  PDA lecture at PAS where the PDA was seen as a demon many babies had  been exposed to surgical ligation with a known
Biotech Innovation

Hope x to Neonatal Congenital Heart

Had a chance to attend #TEIBIO -  Transference (of knowledge Entrepreneurship ) & Innovation in Biotech . inspirational talk on rare diseases awareness day and topics were bringing hope to paediatrics #nicu: by address solutions to Neonatal Congenital Heart #CHD ❤️and better tolerance heart transplant. - 💡Crazy scienceco-founder Dr. Beatriz Salvador shows us how her team have found a non-invasive treatment for Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.  They were able the hole in C
99nicu - tech

The software platform for 99nicu.org takes a new leap

The 99nicu.org web site is built on the Invision Power Board software.  In the next version (v5) there will be a major overhaul of the user interface, allowing for an even better way of presenting and browsing content here. You can get a sneak preview in the video below (a bit techy, but still )  
Social media

Values made me X-it

I don’t need to expand on how Internet and social media have shifted the paradigm for professional discussion. You know this! Painful it is, but I wanted to share that I have decided to close my Twitter/X account. I will miss you tweeps. But... see you soon elsewhere! I started to build a network on Twitter in 2009, exploring this new channel for communication about research and medicine. Twitter was different then, compared to what X has become. In the earlier years, Twitter impersona
Guests

From Tarrega's Memories of the Alhambra to Sibelius' Tounela Swan: experience of a Spanish neonatologist in Turku

I would like to introduce to you doctor Angela Gregoraci, a Spanish neonatologist, who has just completed a two-month observership in our NICU in Turku, Finland. Our unit here in Turku, is a tertiary center, with single-family rooms and- even more importantly- with families having the possibility to stay with and care for their sick or premature infant throughout the day and night. The objective of this short training was to learn how to facilitate the implementation of family-centered care in d
Seneo Transport pics

Humanize Care Neonatal Transport in Spain.

Fantastic put together webinar by neonatal transport Seneo work neonatal transport group. Here are some  favorite suggestions. 🔷Ear Muffs 🔷Air mattress 🔷Blanky with mum swell  🔷Fuzzy toy. 🔷Thank the Drivers : Be aware of G force driver have take with sudden break.  🔹Consider 🚑 design allow all to have a better transport experience.             From my perspective it was   Interesting the neonatal transport   Landscape is diverse from the pioneering r

Humanizing Care NICU : Management with Compassion

Today I sharing ‘tis post from HUGES a great. Organization dedicated to humanizing care in intensive care settings and emergency services. I particularly by this webinar on humanize. Management starting with leading with empathy, simply things that can be hard to achieve, but make us think Speakers suggests a few things to start with :   J. Carlos March - Profesor  EASP {Escuela Salud Publica- Public Health Institute of Andalucia}  Director of School of patient.
startup

Why health care professionals are fitted for the #startup universe

I like projects outside my clinical and academic work. 99nicu was the first big project that came out in public from my "Department of Brilliant Ideas". Since several years, I have devoted a lot of work for a project that eventually led to the startup Neobiomics, since 2019 under the wings of the Karolinska Innovations AB. Neobiomics provides ProPrems®, a high-quality multi-strain food supplement. Entering the startup universe has been like embarking a rollercoaster journey. In many wa

the 99nicu App - to be expected during 2020

The professional communication during the Covid-19 pandemic really shows the potential to share expertise and experience through web-based channels. Journals, societies, regular news media, social media platforms etc-etc play an important role for us to keep updated, and many web sites have also opened up their content free of charge. We will learn many things from facing and tackling this pandemic, but one major change will certainly be our communication channels. Many are discovering

To my fellow Ph.D. students- #StayTheFuckHome

Dear fellow Ph.D. students, full-time researchers, and other fellow scientists, please #staythefuckhome. In many grant proposals, we write "this research has the potential to save lives, because... ". Let's face it- most of our research won't save lives (or at least not at once)*. No matter how fantastic our research projects are, science takes time. But what can actually save lives immediately is US STAYING HOME. This way we - the (relatively) young people in big academic campuses- won't b

#NLS Chest Compression ,Probably 🆗️ & Ethics

A article that most struck lately: This article by Dr. G.Moore et al researchers at the University of Ottawa, accessible #FOAM, give a good thoughtful analysis to whether chest compression & epinephrine cause more harm than good to V.preterm infants using 'principals' as an ethical framework aka the Spanish /French say does 'Encarnecimiento Terapeutico' a concept complex. As I understand, away to explain it what happens when you go beyond overtreatment?  When continuing treatment i

Innovation - more than the new buzz word in health care?

The new buzz word in health care is “innovation”. Which is a good thing!  I have been in the ecosystem of innovation since 2016 with the startup company Neobiomics and the ProPrems® product, in the Innovation Incubator at Karolinska Institutet (KI DRIVE). There we meet with other startup companies, and we share several of the challenges of operating in the interface between innovation and “traditional” health care. Here's a few thoughts. Innovation can only benefit patients throug

Antibiotic Resistance in NICU: Are phages the answer in the future

After watching a documentary in ARTE about bacteriophages it made me think about how else is antibiotic resistance in NICU.? It available french / German Here the story phages was told. First discovered use by  Felix Derrel to combat infections in the pre-antibiotics era and was later discredited and forget about in the western world Historically they worked rather well, so there is an attempt to bring them back in the light of increasing antibiotics resistance. This rediscovery s

Things I wish somebody had told me before I moved to Finland

It’s been some time since I last posted here. Many things have changed in my life since then- the most important transition being my decision to move to Finland to work as a research fellow with the Baby-friendly Ventilation Study Group in Turku. The life of a beginning clinical researcher deserves a separate post here (it may even come at some point). To celebrate my first anniversary in Finland I would like to share 3 things I wish somebody had told me before I moved here. Enjoy! 1.Get ny

Budding academic> BAPM: UK & Health tech review

This September I had the opportunity to go to BAPM-EBNEO to kept Learning a out Neonatology and hopefully network with the EBNEO, so glad I see lots of you  face to face. This kept motivated to finish my PhD as I re-embark in find a new supervisor _only 1.5 yrs to go. I was real hard to let of the clinician in me as , this is my comfort zone. As a budding academic learn I get explore ideas and ways to implement them as bioethicists , as well finding ways to humanize the NIcU via processes. Last

Review on ethics around decision-making - compulsary reading for all NICU staff

If you are to read one paper on neonatal ethics this year, I'd argue that this is the one. Late last year, John Lantos, pediatrician and a leading medical ethicist, published a review in NEJM on the ethics around decision-making in the NICU. The paper is not open-access... but you can surely get it from within your hospital intranet or your university/hospital library. We have a fantastic toolbox in the NICU. We can provide live-saving treatments and support. Most newborns in the NICU

Sim Devices for teaching NLS & ALS:Day @EMS2019

Last month I got a chance to day pass at ems2019 to get an update on hospital tranfer#picu by la paz and update on  ilcor peadiatric resus by Dr Maconochiel who gave us an insight into how guidelines are elaborated -quite complex.I also the tech lover and intetact  resus decives. The   Mechanical for compression in for fevices look impressive , and fumctional .I was suprised to see many there are available to date x adult use only. My NLS Top medical devices -tried and tested Moniven