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by 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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- 4 days ago23 min
#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - What Does It Take to Build a Dedicated BPD Unit?
Send us Fan Mail What happens to a baby with severe BPD when the attending changes every two weeks and every plan starts over? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna sits down with Dr. Sushmita Yallapragada, Dr. Riddhi Desai, and Dr. Jonathan Ibrahim of UT Southwestern and Children’s Health in Dallas to talk about BOOST, their Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Outcomes and Support Team, and the new 12-bed BPD unit within their NICU. They explain how a small core of physicians, APPs, nurses, an...
- 4 days ago21 min
#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Can We Make Neonatal Renal Replacement Therapy Simpler?
Send us Fan Mail If your NICU doesn’t offer dialysis, do families still know it’s an option? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna sits down with pediatric nephrologist Dr. David Askenazi and nephrology nurse practitioner Kara Short of Children’s of Alabama, and neonatologist Dr. Cara Slagle, ahead of their workshop on practical approaches to neonatal renal replacement therapy. They explain why the most important topics are often the least discussed: medication dosing on dialysis, vasc...
- 4 days ago16 min
#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Is the Prenatal Consult a Checkbox or the Start of a Relationship?
Send us Fan Mail When five specialists sit across from one frightened family, who responds when a parent starts to cry? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna sits down with Dr. Zeynep Salih of Riley Children’s Hospital to talk about interdisciplinary prenatal counseling. Dr. Salih shares findings from interviews with 24 physicians: most prefer counseling together, so everyone is on the same page; nearly all said being a parent helps them empathize; and many deferred emotional moments t...
- 4 days ago11 min
#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Can You Prove Your Commitment to Quality Without the Data?
Send us Fan Mail What does it take to back up a claim that your NICU delivers the highest quality of care? Recording live at the CHNC Symposium in Denver, Daphna reunites with Dr. Rune Toms, system chief of neonatology at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and The Incubator’s very first guest. He explains why Nicklaus is joining the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium, and how its data on complex level IV patients goes beyond what other networks capture. He describes neonatal care as a chain, ...
- 4 days ago15 min
#475 - 🟠 [CHNC 2026] - Are we underdiagnosing urinary tract infections in the NICU or missing ROP in Infants Over 30 Weeks?
Send us Fan Mail Recording live at the CHNC Symposium, Daphna sits down with two Explore presenters. Dr. Rachel Han of Golisano Children’s Hospital shares a clinical prediction model for UTI in level IV NICUs, built from the CHND, which flags vesicoureteral reflux, urinary tract obstruction, male sex, and aneuploidy as risk factors, and explains why the new AAP guideline’s lower threshold may reveal more infections. Dr. Jeffrey Shenberger of Connecticut Children’s then examines ROP in infants...
- 4 days ago4 min
#475 - 🟠 CHNC 2026 - Kick off!
Send us Fan Mail The Incubator Podcast is coming to you from the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) Symposium in Denver, Colorado! Daphna sits down with the physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and researchers whose focus groups collaborate all year round, across the United States and into Canada, to move research to the bedside sooner for the most complex babies in level IV NICUs. Catch all of these episodes on both our podcast channel and our YouTube channel, wherever you p...
- 5 days ago32 min
#473 - 🟣 [FANNP 2026] - We can't help what we inherited, but we are responsible for what we leave for the field
Send us Fan Mail Who will care for the next generation of NICU babies? Daphna and Christa sit down with Colleen Reiley Moss and Jessica Meneses Jones to unpack the neonatal nurse practitioner workforce crisis. With only 37 NNP programs nationwide and clinical placements blocked by red tape, they explore why so few nurses enter the pipeline and why many leave. Christa shares how becoming a clinical site helped her program recruit, and what it truly costs. Together they make the case that NNPs ...
- 5 days ago30 min
#473 - 🟣 [FANNP 2026] - High yield articles from the last year!
Send us Fan Mail Daphna and Christa sit down with Dr. Alfonso Vargas to preview his journal club. They review the NICHD Neonatal Research Network PDA trial, stopped early for higher mortality with treatment, the UK FEED1 trial on full milk feeds from day one in babies at 30 to 32 weeks, and the PLaNT trial of prophylactic CPAP after cesarean birth in late preterm infants. Dr. Vargas also shares his top takeaways from the 2026 AAP therapeutic hypothermia report and why unit culture, built from...
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