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Stefan Johansson

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  1. 🎉 20 Years of 99nicu 🎉

    99nicu · Stefan Johansson · 04/28/2026 12:51 PM

    On May 11, 2026, 99nicu turns 20. It’s a moment that feels deeply meaningful to me.
    When I shared the very first words on 99nicu back in 2006, and celibrated our first birth day in 2007, the idea was simple: to create a web-based space where NICU staff could “share and care.” This was before social media as we know it today, when like-minded people gathered on bulletin boards in the era of what we then called Web 2.0 (Wikipedia), guided by the belief that “information wants to be free.” (Those really were the days!)
    And yes, our first logo was… not too bad 🙂
    Much of my inspiration back then came from 99mac, a community I was part of, where Mac users helped each other with all kinds of IT-related challenges. It made me think: why shouldn’t NICU staff have something similar? As a young neonatal specialist at the time, I was eager to connect beyond my own unit. But with demanding shifts, traveling to conferences was rarely possible.
    Since 2006, 99nicu has gone through many phases, from the early “just do it” years, through quieter periods, to where we are today: a full-fledged community with this website, conferences, webinars, and even the NICUVERSE, our own social media feed based on Mastodon.
    Over the years, our community has grown into something greater than a website. It’s a place of generosity, curiosity, and support. I’ve seen colleagues from around the world come together to discuss complex cases, challenge ideas, and stand by each other during difficult moments.
    For me personally, 99nicu has been an incredible journey. I’ve learned so much from all of you, and I feel truly grateful to have been part of building and nurturing this community together. Your willingness to share knowledge and perspectives, with the common purpose of improving care for newborns and their families, is such a source of inspiration. It’s also a powerful reminder that there is still a lot of good in the world.
    To everyone who has contributed over the past 20 years, whether by asking a question, sharing an insight, or simply being present, thank you ❤️ You are what makes 99nicu what it is.
    As we celebrate this milestone, I’m excited about what lies ahead. The need for connection and collaboration in neonatal care is as important as ever.
    With gratitude, Stefan
    PS. As a non-profit organization registered with the Swedish Tax Agency, we rely on community support. If you find value in 99nicu, please consider contributing an annual fee of 10 EUR, just click here!
  2. For years, the 99nicu community has been a place where neonatal professionals connect, share knowledge, and support each other in improving care for the smallest patients. But could it also become a place where careers in neonatal care begin or take the next step?
    We’re exploring the idea of adding a Job Board to 99nicu — a dedicated space where NICUs and neonatal organizations could post job opportunities for nurses, neonatologists, fellows, researchers, and other neonatal professionals.
    Because 99nicu already brings together thousands of neonatal professionals globally, a job board could create a natural bridge between NICUs seeking staff and clinicians looking for their next role.
    Of course, the most important question is whether this would be useful for you, the community.
    Would you use a 99nicu Job Board?
    Would your NICU consider posting job opportunities there?
    We’d love to hear your thoughts. Share your feedback in the comments and help shape what the future of 99nicu could look like.

  3. The abstract submission deadline for CEPAS 2026 is extended until 15 April!
    Submit your research now for the opportunity to present your work at the Congress of the European Paediatric Academic Societies, taking place 28 - 31 October 2026 in Lyon, France.
    Submitting an abstract also gives you the opportunity to apply for prestigious investigator awards:
    EAP Young Investigator Award
    ESPR Bengt Robertson Award
    ESPR Early Career Investigator Prize
    In addition, ESPR Travel Grants are available for early career investigators whose abstracts are accepted, helping support attendance at CEPAS 2026.
    We will be there too , let ut meet up in Lyon!

  4. Where ideas come from

    Work Life Balance · Stefan Johansson · 03/21/2026 05:09 PM

    Spring times are soon getting here, to my home turf in rural Sweden.
    This open landscape (and framing forests) is where my brilliant ideas are rooted, and thrive. The feeling of opportunity and freedom.
    https://maps.app.goo.gl/eDaP3zTRCqfAhDox5?g_st=ac

  5. We are pleased to announce that the 99NICU Community has become an official partner of the CEPAS Conference, 28-31 Oct 2026.
    CEPAS is an international conference dedicated to advancing knowledge and collaboration in neonatal and pediatric care, a new biennial meeting of the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) and the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR). In addition, the Global Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (GFCNI) is co-organiser.
    Through this partnership, 99NICU will help amplify the reach and discussions of CEPAS within our global neonatal community.
    In the lead-up to the conference, 99NICU will promote CEPAS across our social media channels to help spread awareness and encourage participation. During the conference, members of the 99NICU team will be present on site, host a dedicated 99NICU session, and provide live coverage of selected sessions through social media, sharing insights and key takeaways with the wider community.
    We look forward to working together with the CEPAS team to support collaboration, learning, and innovation in neonatal care.
    Learn more about the conference at cepas.org.

  6. We are approaching the 20 year anniversary of 99NICU and while thinking about our journey, we also came to explore the wider scope, including the feeling of a lost online neonatal community.
    When I first helped build 99NICU in 2006, it came from a very simple need: a safe place to talk about neonatal care with other health care professionals. Not just to exchange information, like over email, but create a community space to think, question and learn together from real clinical experience. At the time, those kinds of conversations were harder to find online, due to the immature technology. Today, that challenge feels even more familiar, but for other reasons.
    Many of us now rely on large social media platforms for professional connection. They’re convenient, fast, and always there. But they were never designed for careful clinical discussion. Algorithms decide what gets seen, conversations disappear as quickly as they appear, and the focus is often on confirmation and engagement (likes!) rather than substance. For neonatal care, where nuance, trust, and context matter, that model simply doesn’t work very well.
    99NICU was created as an alternative to that. From the beginning, it has been built by neonatal professionals, for neonatal professionals, with no commercial agenda driving the conversations. We have a non-profit structure because independence matters.
    What makes me most proud, all these years later, is not the platform itself, but the community behind it. Moderators, developers, and contributors are all volunteering NICU staff, colleagues who care deeply about neonatal care and about maintaining an online space where knowledge grow over time.
    99NICU is not “social media” in the usual sense. It is a professional community reclaimed — a shared space we collectively own and shape.
    Last but not least, being independent implies that we need support in a crowd-funding way. Please consider to donate 10 EUR per year to keep our servers running, visit this page to do it today!

  7. World Prematurity Day 2025

    World Prematurity Day · Stefan Johansson · 11/17/2025 01:52 PM

    today, on November 17, is World Prematurity Day.
    We, being neonatal health care professionals, are much aware of the many unmet needs for preterm newborns.
    But, for the larger context, there is still much to do, creating awareness of the large public health challenge to reduce the burden of preterm birth.
    If you have some time today, join the WHO webinar about the launch of a new global clinical practice guide for Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC). Register here!


  8. Last night shift

    Work Life Balance · Stefan Johansson · 10/08/2025 02:02 PM

    I’ve done it, the last night shift.
    What in many ways defines us, devoted to neonatal care, is no longer part of my working life.
    One of my gifts in life has been endurance and grit, allowing a good amount of workload. It has enabled my long journey from the countryside where I grew up to an intellectually affluent position with many hats: one clinical, one academic, one for greater-good projects (like 99nicu!), and one as a startup entrepreneur.
    But with time and age usually come limitations, even for me. Approaching my 60s, and accepting that our family’s cardiovascular phenotype is also my trajectory, I decided to follow the advice to stop working shifts. There’s no drama or anything like that (no need to send flowers!), but I want to stay in good shape until the finishing line.
    Still, quitting night shifts is a big step for me, one I’ve been hesitant about. While there are many upsides, including a sense of relief, I also feel a certain fear of missing out.
    I think many of you reading this can relate to how shift work becomes part of your DNA when you dedicate your professional life to neonatal care. Babies are born seven days a week, and they don’t care if delivery happens at 2 a.m. on Midsummer’s Eve.* As NICU staff, we know this. Our setup is planned accordingly, and most of us would admit that we actually like this lifestyle, being able and willing to open our large toolbox of small things, at any time.
    During my many shifts over the years, I’ve been privileged to meet countless families and their newborns under challenging circumstances. In most (though unfortunately not all) cases, these situations have brought relief and reward, especially when later meeting families and NICU graduates at our follow-up clinics.
    So, what now? Honestly, I’m not entirely sure. My daytime clinical role won’t change much, but the bigger shift is in my overall “business model” for work.
    In Sweden, on-duty hours can be compensated with time off instead of pay. For example, if you work a weekend, you can get a full week off with salary instead of “grabbing the money.” For me, time has its own precious value, and our model of compensating shift work with time have allowed me to engage in many fulfilling but unfunded projects still connected to neonatal care. Such as research, 99nicu and EBNEO, and starting Neobiomics from scratch.
    Now, without the opportunity to “earn time” from night shifts, I’ll need to rethink how to fit my life into a tighter schedule. That’s not entirely a bad thing, but it will require new, creative ways to keep working for the bigger picture.
    ⸻
    *Maybe this isn’t the best example — at 2 a.m. on Midsummer’s Eve in Sweden, many Swedes are still awake, enjoying the early morning sun. But you get my point.

  9. I spent a few wonderful days at jENS 2025. While I had great days at this large neonatology conference, I also checked in into the various social media channels, to find out about missed out things. And realised… the neonatal social media is pretty dead ☹️
    In the beginning, we had a pretty basic Internet. It offered the opportunity to search for information unilaterally and connecting people over electronic mail.
    Later came the embryo of the social web, taking the communication beyond emails. The first multi-lateral gatherings happened on so-called Bulletin Boards, often geeky/niched online spaces where like-minded people found freedom and space to “share and care”, as the saying went back then. The 99nicu Discussion Forum was started in 2006 with such an intention, to build a dedicated online community for NICU staff.
    The social web, as we know it today, was/is built on scale. I believe the initiatives that developed into the large global platforms had sound intentions, but the magnitude of fast growth required business models and venture capital to sustain. As we all know, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
    Through massive user bases and algorithms, the typical social media feed selectively promotes content aligning with your own posts. In the early days of Twitter, this worked wonderfully well. I was an early Twitter user and truly enjoyed an engaging and active feed. Back then, Twitter was my primary space for finding and discussing new research publications. However, when the open athmosphere got lost, I decided to log out for good.
    Large social media platforms will, sooner or later, need to capitalise on you, using your data/content for promotion of advertising content. Furthermore, the social web offers anonymity and automation, enabling less nice accounts to ruin your good feeling about your freedom of speech. “Enshittification”…
    Coming back to jENS and social media...
    There are a larger set of social webs now. In addition to “the old” X, Facebook, and LinkedIn, we now have Threads, BlueSky, and Instagram. I checked in myself on all mentioned platforms, browsing the conference hash tags #jENScongress and #jENS2025. The results were indeed disappointing. With the exception of companies advertising their presence, very few posts popped up with professional reflections, questions, and comments about sessions and workshops. Back in the days, it was possible to follow news and views shared as conference "live-feeds" on Twitter, as if almost being there in person. The social media coverage of jENS was nothing but a disappointment.
    Why this?
    This variety of social webs has led to fragmentation. Today, there is no natural single space for online instant sharing/discussion. People are spread out, there is no critical mass of niched content / people.
    What now?
    As a believer of independent initiatives driven by Greater Good Goals beyond business models, I think there is indeed room for our older and slower 99nicu Discussion Forums. But I would love to have an instant feed like Twitter with focused neonatology content, like my old Twitter feed. A large number of NICU staff has joined BlueSky, but despite my attempt to curate a focused feed, it gets cluttered by pets, politics, and all problems in today’s complicated world. I have nothing against pets, politics, or world problems (the other way around!), but I prefer to get such content through other channels (like regular news media).
    Some time ago, 99nicu opened “the NICUVERSE”, i.e an own Mastodon server. Mastodon is a self-hosted social media platform that gives full control to you as a user (and to us hosting it). There is a slightly higher threshold to get into how it all works. And, the technical platform is also a work in progress (being open source). But we are all smart people and learn by doing! There are several principal advantages with Mastodon: there are no adverts, no one sells your data, you control your integrity and privacy. I do believe Mastodon to be the platform for a community feed with uncluttered neonatal care content.
    If you are curious to try this out, register for the NICUVERSE here! I will do my best to contribute with content 😀



  10. we wanted to promote two neonatology media projects.
    First of all, the Preemie voices videos, meeting some of the preemie participants who wrote the inspiring letters in “Preemie Voices” book by Dr Saroj Saigal. Both videos, from 2014 and 2024, are added to the Links Directory but also embedded directly below.
    Our second recommendation is to follow Neonatology Now, a podcast hosted by European School of Neonatology. The most recent episode is a very interesting interview with Prof Barbara Schmidt.


  11. 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 instrumental for evidence-based practices in NICUs. However, we experience a time in history where high-pitched opinions want to change the narrative about meaningful public health strategies to reduce the disease burden of newborns.
    Therefore, the #BabiesNeedScience campaign is a timely initiative that we fully support. We want to encourage all 99nicu members to join this campaign, by speaking out why #BabiesNeedScience, on this web site and in your social media channels. Support and follow AAPs example.
    https://www.instagram.com/p/DIsjikrxc4h/

  13. 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!

  15. Values made me X-it

    Social media · Stefan Johansson · 10/04/2023 08:59 PM

    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 impersonated open, high-level and cross-professional discussions. Despite different opinions shared, the feed was a friendly gathering. If you posted something seemingly controversial (or something not at all controversial about Covid-19, liberal democracy values, suffering among immigrants, or aggressive warfare), people commented in a respectful manner. You did not get a load of automated bot replies (from "verified accounts" with like ~10 followers) telling you were a moron and should XYZ!
    Importantly, #NeoTwitter, #NeoEBM and #foamneo all grew into valuable resources. I am so grateful for connecting with you and other wonderful people there. It has indeed enriched my professional life, and often made me think twice.
    With X and the new leadership by Musk et al (btw, is there even an “al”?), I have simply taken the consequence of not compromising with my values. That’s why I will delete my X account soon, after saying good bye to comrades there. The principal reason is that I don’t want to contribute to a communication platform where hate speech, conspiracy theories, and fake news is given this much space. The world of today is complicated enough as it is.
    Although my own feed is still pretty OK, I feel that sharing a communication platform with the “dark side” (and don’t underestimate the force of it), implies that my presence there, as a person and as a professional, legitimate the bad stuff. In fact, this might even be an intentional business strategy of the X management team.
    There is certainly some “alternative cost” to rebuild a neonatal network on a new platform. But I am fine with that. For myself, this is a step worth taking to get rid off the feeling that I am also, to some symbolic extent, feeding the trolls on X.
    For the time being, I will stick to LinkedIn, while hoping to rebuild a network feed on our NICUVERSE Mastodon-server and/or on Bluesky. So, might see you there
    And of course, maybe the future holds a renaissance for 99nicu.org with its older-school web site-based discussions.
    Please note that this is a personal decision and about my own Tw/X account. However, within the 99nicu Team, we are also discussing an X-it strategy, but we need to make sure we have the organization's best interest in mind. And, with our upcoming conference, we may choose to keep the 99nicu account up and running to for sharing the word about our conference plans. After all, #NeoTwitter is still a great place for reaching out.
    Thanks to the Verge for making the graphics illustrating this post

  16. 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 ways a personally rewarding experience, but it has also been walking a challenging path with many obstacles to overcome along the way.
    Regardless of the ups and downs, bringing an idea into a startup context will make you work. A lot. (And for most of the first few hundred/thousand hours, without renumeration.)
    I recently saw a TED-talk by Darria Long (see it below), on how systematic strategies in emergency medicine can be used to cope with high work loads in general. And it struck me that we, as health care professionals, are well fitted as startup founders.
    Not anyone make the choice to work in health care. IMHO, we are a selection of people sharing a special compassion for what we do. And, through long education and training, the importance of know-how and experience is incorporated in our DNA.
    How does all this make health care professionals fit for startups?
    we build and work through trustful relations we like to meet the unknown we work hard for a clear objective, even if the outcome may be uncertain despite limited resources, we manage things first thanks to limited resources, we can prioritize our work is problem-based, not solution-based our work has structure, even in a seemingly chaotic  situation the detective work in medicine makes us good lateral thinkers Naturally, the startup universe requires its own specific skills (finance, legal, development, communication etc-etc). And the trajectory for becoming a startup founder is similar to becoming a health care professional - one needs to learn, practise and connect with others to make something out a brilliant idea.
    You have an idea? Make it happen!
    (this post is dedicated to KI Innovations AB)
     
     
  17. 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 the web-based possibilities to learn and discuss.
    We will do our best to facilitate professional communication within the neonatal community.
    And, finally it seems that the company providing our software (IPB) will finally roll out a smartphone app. Which means that 99nicu will literally become available in your pocket through a "99nicu App".
    The screen shots below comes from the beta-version of the app now used by the company providing our software.
    And yes, there will be light-mode and dark-mode  
    Stay tuned!
        
      
  18. 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 through implementation
    For innovations to reach out and bring value, implementation is key. No matter how brilliant an idea, it needs to be brought to life in an open-minded culture, where learning and change are core values. Health care can be conservative and resistive to change, and that may slow down, discourage or even hinder implementation.
    Eminence-based medicine vs evidence-based medicine
    I am a strong advocate of evidence-based medicine myself, but health care is still influenced a fair bit by “eminence-based medicine”. High-profile people may tell how they “feel” or “believe”. While feelings and beliefs are essential parts of the human nature, they are (IMHO) insufficient arguments in discussions about evidence. Innovations backed by evidence may not “feel right” if they change current practice. But we need to trust data, or else there is little point of doing research.
    (Too?) many stakeholders
    Health care is a complex structure, with a lot of stakeholders. While patients are more empowered now than ever before, there are a lot of “layers” between an innovation and a patient. Implementation involves staff, informal leaders, heads of departments, pharmacies, management teams, professional bodies, policymakers etc. As a consequence, implementation takes time. It can take more time than patients should need to tolerate.
    What to do?
    To take words to action, health care needs to embrace a culture of learning and change, or else “innovation” will be no more than a buzz word Research data is a valid starting point for change Innovators travel with light luggage, and need a complementary decision-making process in health care, not to delay the benefits and value that innovation bring patients With best regards from the Department of Brilliant Ideas
  20. 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 survive to good long-term health.
    However, we also operate in a high-risk environment where some infant may suffer, some infants will die, and some infants will survive with difficult sequele. Which raises the question, by staff and by parents, what is the "right" thing to do in complex situations. When withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapies becomes a option to decide upon.
    How could we navigate in this landscape? IMHO, the review by Lantos is a good starting point on how to form a local practise.
    Lantos shares his reasoning about we cannot "solve" these discussion with "information" as such. Despite how hard we try,  data alone does not lead the whole way. Outcomes is hard to measure, they change over time and we all percieve risks differently. Therefore, information is difficult to standardize. Furthermore, those of us sharing the information will filter our presentation through our subjective selves, coping with opinions, experiences and our expertise in different ways. 
    The better alternative around ethical questions is shared decision-making. Two central quotes of the review is that
    and that
    Certainly, the future of neonatal care will bring more ethical questions to us. Refined prenatal diagnostics, the down-shifting boundary of viability and new treatment technologies in the future (like the artificial placenta) will impact how we think about fetal life and postnatal life, what is the "periviable grey zone" and what our fantastic toolbox can do.
    While improving our skills, from a medical/technical viewpoint, we also need to improve how we cope with the ethics around decision-making processes.
    Besides reading the review by John Lantos, I can recommend you to see this lecture from theh #99nicuMeetup in Copenhagen 2019, by Eduard Verhagen.
     
    (Feature Photo : Cropped photo by Liane Metzler on Unsplash)

  21. 99nicu 101

    · Stefan Johansson · 05/03/2019 10:18 AM

    While at the #99nicuMeetup, I and @Francesco Cardona were filmed by Miris (one of our exhibiting partners).
    It was a one-time shot without rehearsal, so we spoke from the heart
     
     
  22. I must admit that it is a bit exciting to think about that 99nicu.org went live 12 years ago, at a time when Facebook and other “social media” web sites was yet to be invented.
    (@Zuckerberg, no offense here. Obviously, you created something far greater than 99nicu, still a grass rot project. BTW – could we apply for funding from you Foundation?)
    When starting 99nicu.org in 2006, we nourished an idea that experiences and expertise should not be hindered by geographical boundaries. In some sense, this was a statement, that we as medical professionals could help each other through other channels than journals and conferences, with inclusive and open mindsets, and new technologies.
    Back then we knew little about the powerful potential of the Internet. Neither could we foresee how the Internet would change our private and professional lives. We were just a group of young staff in Sweden, wanting to create a web based platform for discussions within a global group of neonatal pro’s.
    When I read this blog post by @AllThingsNeonatal (on his web site allthingsneonatal.com) where he reflects on how sharing and caring in social media has created a global village, I am struck by the thought - a global village was what we envisioned back in 2006. Coming from a small village myself, I think that also 99nicu.org parallells the village symbolism: a setting with small communication gaps (everyone knows everything about everyone, so we don't need formalities to get in touch and speak out), and where giving and taking advice is a bilateral process that may ultimately lead to “the best solution”. Or simply, that we find out that there are several good solutions for a given problem.
    Has 99nicu become as global village for neonatal staff on the Internet? Although biased, I’d say YES . Data also supports that. During January through April,  the web site had 18.000 visitors from all over the globe, making 45.200 pageviews. From the Google Analytics dashboard we can all see that 99nicu reaches almost every corner of the world!
    Our principal idea has always been that the virtual space is where we operate. It is the Internet that creates the possibility to connect and exchange experience as expertise from where we are. However, meeting up IRL is also a powerful way to maintain sustainable networks and that idea is the driving force behind the “99nicu Meetups”.
    For the 1st and 2nd Meetup conferences in Stockholm and Vienna (in June 2017 and in April 2018), delegates came from 17 and 33 countries, respectively. Let’s hope we can have even a larger geographical representation at our IRL Meetup next year. Stay tuned for dates and location

  23. We have become >7000!

    · Stefan Johansson · 09/06/2018 07:00 PM

    I just realized that the 99nicu community has grown to >7000 members.
    An amazing number for an independent grass-rotish project, that aims to create a virtual space for neonatal staff around the world.
    Naturally, there are members that registered more than 10 years ago who have completely forgotten about 99nicu. But still, we know that our newsletter is recieved by ~6200 members.
    Regardless of the exact number,  we have engaged a lot of people over the years, who have been connecting and sharing questions and expertise.
    And, in my dreams, I see 99nicu reaching its real potential. Let's hope that dream will come true.
     
  24. We are on important missions in the NICU. From time to time, we all sense the strong rewarding feeling that our work mattered a lot.
    I love the hands-on work in the NICU, but I also believe strongly in pursuing work at the meta-level of things. That we can change care and improve outcomes through research, quality improvement, and taking our professionalism outside the box. And to the web! Naturally, the 99nicu “global village” is one of those meta-level journeys for me.
    I have shared small bits of information previously about a new project with a really big scope, Neobiomics, an academic startup company founded in 2016, that will provide a super-high quality bifidobacterial product, “from the community, to the community”. Launch is planned in Europe mid-2019.
    Although the product itself is much requested, I personally think that this project has a much wider potential. With access to a highly advanced machinery (literally!) at the production facility, it should be possible to make other compositions (other sets of bacteria, other bacterial numbers, +/- other compounds etc) for some really cool comparative trials.
    We are still working mainly behind the scenes in the Neobiomics HQs, but relatively soon, we will step on stage and start creating buzz
    Stay tuned  
    PS. The project above has nothing and everything to do with the talk below. Creativity is the Power to Act.
     
  25. Register for the 99nicu Meetup!
    In the virtual 99nicu Headquarters, we are now very busy with all preparations for our upcoming Meetup, AKA the Future of Neonatal Care conference. This third conference will take place in Copenhagen, 7-10 April, and we are already thrilled about what to come.
    Our vision for the 99nicu Community is to offer an Internet platform where neonatal staff from all over the world can share questions, experiences and expertise. Therefore, we are grateful to see, as previous years, that our conference “footprints” our global outreach and attracts a truly international group of delegates. There are currently 130 delegates coming from 30 countries, from East to West, from North to South. Naturally, we have room for You as well!
    What makes the Future of Neonatal Care conference different from other meetings?
    First of all, our principal idea is the one of postgraduate learning. To provide evidence-based neonatal care, we all need to refresh and refine our knowledge base. That is pretty obvious, as our work as neonatology professionals gravitates around know-how. IMHO, we can all improve here.
    Secondly, we believe conferences should be a place to exchange expertise and experience, and give anyone a chance to ask questions. Every 45 minute session typically includes a 30 minute lecture, to give sufficient time for discussion. Participants at our previous conferences especially enjoyed “very good discussions” and “plenty of time for questions”. We use the smartphone app sli.do (https://www.sli.do/) to allow immediate feedback from participants. Through polls and multiple-choice-questions during lectures, delegates learn from each other. Most importantly, lecturers also get an opportunity to comment directly on aspects popping up.
    Thirdly, we aim to place topics in a forward-facing context, how neonatology will develop in the future. Why do we need to know about cord clamping? How should we support breathing of preterm infants? What inotropes shall we use when? Shall discharge MRIs be standard of care for preterm infants? Why do we need to rehearse simulated scenarios?
    Great program!
    We are honored to welcome a great set of Faculty members to Copenhagen. To share a few examples:
    Barbara Schmidt and Haresh Kirpalani lead a workshop on when evidence should change the standard of care, and how to interpret non-inferiority trials Mortein Breindahl will lecture and lead a workshop on neonatal transports, together with Christian Heiring Victoria Payne will share her expertise on prevention of CLABSI David Edwards will challenge our minds about MRIs in preterm infants Liisa Lethonen and Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth will, for the third time, run their highly appreciated workshop on Family-based care Brett Manley will tell us if/how to “Go with (high) flow” Gorm Greisen, Ulrika Ådén and Eduard Verhagen will engage in several lectures and a debate on practices and ethics around the border of viability, and parent-participation in decision-making. As you can see, we have lots to look forward to! Join us at the Future of Neonatal Care in Copenhagen 7-10 April!
    And yes, we will share take-home messages from the Future of Neonatal Care from our Twitter account @99nicu. As previous years, the hashtag will be #99nicuMeetup

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