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The startup company Amnion Life, one of our supporting partners, is seeking a few NICU professionals for a consultancy team around their exciting projects. Read below and contact the CEO Amir Fassihi directly for more information (amir.fassihi@amnion.life) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Are you interested in joining an online team of NICU experts to help with design and development of innovative medical devices for preterm infants? Amnion Life Medical Devices, a startup company and developer of Amniobed is proud to announce that they have just completed the second round of Seed funding. The prototype for Amniobed has been built and is undergoing pre-clinical testing for safety. The company is tasked with building the team of clinical experts to further advance design and development of Amniobed and other innovative medical devices for preterm infants. Amnion Life is looking to recruit one or two NICU experts from North America, Europe and Asia each for an initial team of 5-6 experts. Consultants work in ten-hour blocks on tasks remotely from home. Tasks include a review of Amniobed and other innovative NICU medical devices on design, user needs, hazard identification, risk management, systematic literature review and clinical trial design. The company intends to draft the clinical trial protocols for FDA presubmission and approval by Q4 of 2018 and begin the initial clinical trials in Q1 or Q2 2019. Company's preference is for consultants whomay be interested in further academic work serving as primary investigators on the clinical trials for Amniobed at the later phases of research and development. If you are interested in working as an expert consultant for Amnion Life, please contact: amir.fassihi@amnion.life Thank you, Amir Fassihi M.D. CEO/Founder email: amir.fassihi@amnion.life 2618 San Miguel Drive Suite 149 Newport Beach, CA, 92660 1 310-927-1442 * * * Kralja Petra 92 31210, Pozega, Serbia +381 31812 444

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We proudly present Amnion Life as a new Supporting Partner of 99nicu! Amnion Life will add an unrestricted educational grant supporting to our funds for IT services and for the upcoming meetup in Vienna. Much appreciated! Amnion Life is a medical device company founded to develop the AmnioBed, an amniotic neonatal incubator system. AmnioBed is a novel, patented and sophisticated incubator that creates a simulated amniotic fluid self-regulating, sterile submersion bath environment, similar to the mother’s womb, to recreate an ideal environment to nurture preterm infants. The AmnioBed is intended to provide critical, ongoing development and nurturing to in-turn decrease short and long-term complications that are common in premature birth. Read more about Amnion Life and AmnioBed on http://amnion.life/

The 24 hour countdown for Early Birds is starting! If you want to join us at the discounted rate, register no later than January 15. Sign up today https://99nicu.org/meetup/registration Why come to the Future of Neonatal Care? Reason #1 Interactivity We believe conferences should be a place to exchange knowledge and give anyone a chance to ask questions. Participants at our last conference especially enjoyed “very good discussions” and “plenty of time for questions”. We use an app to allow for immediate feedback from participants. Additionally, we will have workshops on current important issues of neonatology like parent-centered care, best practice in applying surfactant and simulation training in neonatology. Reason #2 Future Our topics are focused on how neonatology will develop in the future. What skills will the neonatologist need to perform best practice neonatology (echo, LISA)? How can we identify infants that are in risk of deteriorating? What tools will help us treat our infants on the neonatal ward (ultrasound, aEEG, NIRS, MRI)? How should we design our neonatal wards ideally? And how can we work together with parents for optimal outcomes?

Are you a US-based neonatologists working in a non-academic NICU? If yes, we would like to promote an opportunity for you. The startup-company Noninvasix wants to make interviews on why you would use or not use NIRS, and what evidence you would need in order to purchase NIRS-technology. For our help sharing this information, Noninvasix will give an unrestricted educational grant to us, helping out with funding of our IT-costs etc. In other words, you contribute to 99nicu funding if you participate in the interviews. If you are interested to be interviewed, please email Graham Randall, president and CEO at Noninvasix, on grandall@noninvasix.com Interviews needs to be completed before Oct 10... so don't wait too long!

There is now three more videos from the 99nicu Meetup posted on the "Meetup17" page about: NAVA-ventilation Probiotics Perinatal care differences in EU Find the Meetup17 page in the navigation bar above. Enjoy !

Another two videos of the lectures from the 99nicu Meetup is now available on the Meetup17-page! Click on the "Meetup17" tab in the meny above to see: Amir Kuperman lecturing about "Developmental Hemostasis - Practical Aspects For The Neonatologist" Kristine Karlsen lecturing about "21 years of S.T.A.B.L.E. Program Education: History and Module Overview"

Another case is shared in the Virtual NICU: a 36w infant with poor feeding and dysmorpic features. The posting member seeks advice on possible differential diagnoses. Please find the case history and photos here. Please note that you must log in to access the virtual NICU and read/post about this case.

The latest admission to the Virtual NICU is resolved, the infant has a 22q11 deletion syndrome. Warm regards to everyone adding input into this tricky case and special thanks to @Jose Ramon Fernandez who suggested the diagnosis, confirmed by genetic testing. As the Virtual NICU is a closed members-only area for 99nicu, you need to be logged in to read and add input in discussion. Please find the URL below (if logged in you can just click on it, otherwise you need to log in first)

There is a new case in the Virtual NICU, posted by @Pontus Johansson about an ex-preterm infant with a suspected congenital syndrome. The posting member seeks advice on possible differential diagnoses. Please find the case history and photos here. Note that you need to be logged in to get access to the virtual NICU, i.e. read and comment.