🚨It's finally out! Our unit's diagnostic approach to NEC: A standardized universal protocol for using adjunct abdominal ultrasound at the time of diagnosis for suspected necrotizing enterocolitis | Pediatric Radiology We will never go back to using abdominal radiograph alone

In proper forest management, small controlled fires clear the brush, and removes the fuel for worse fires! Which means no harmful mega blaze later. Prescribed fire saves the forest from large fires! 🔥🚒🌲🌲🌲🌲 Why is it so hard for us to wrap our head the concept of fighting

❓Why am I posting a photo of Queen Victoria? Because 150 years ago, Victoria was on the throne, Charles Darwin was still alive, Florence Nightingale was reshaping ideas about health and care, and Alexander Graham Bell had only just patented the telephone. 💡Most people lived

In studies on #neonatal #nutrition, authors usually report a large number of outcomes & report the same measurement in multiple ways. Below is an example from a recent RCT. It is easy to obtain multiple different measurements of the body, but we need to select what's important

Adjunct abdominal USS for #NEC at time of initial diagnosis 7/23 USS -> findings of NEC when initial AXR unremarkable Sensitivity aUSS for NEC 0.91 59% aUSS -> higher Bell stage Implementing standardized aUSS guideline feasible & may aid NEC diagnosis https://t.co/hVtpFepHJG

Wearing Halloween nails during patient care is not cute. It is downright scary! Artificial nails, chipped nails, and long nails are dangerous for hospitalized babies - and sick or immunocompromised patients in general. One of the most cited "true stories" behind these bans is a

The FEED1 trial supplementary results are fascinating. The UK investigators fed 80 ml/kg on day 1 (120mL enterally), but only needed to supplement ~100 of 1000 of their babies in each group with non-maternal milk? Their day 1 maternal milk volume rates must be amazing. The

Commentary: How to incorporate bowel ultrasound as a part of the routine care of neonates with necrotizing enterocolitis https://t.co/08YXSZhiNm

Mentors in medicine. You can't just read a book or an internet article and be a physician.

↪️Our most updated: ▶️NEC Evaluation and Treatment Guidelines◀️ are published in the supplementary materials of this article. 🚨🚨🚨 https://t.co/pCeyyK9wOb

USNWR #49 in Neonatology at Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital (Charleston, SC), and top 50 in patient outcomes in the nation. We're happy to highlight our unit's collaborative work in getting back on the map with the other pediatric superstar hospitals. #musckids #charleston

More interesting work was recently published investigating the effect of human milk free fatty acids and observations of selective cytotoxicity in senescent fetal intestinal cells, complementing our lab's past findings. Can we better explain the 'two-hit' preterm gut injury

Join me & @NeoPocusCollab for office hours tomorrow Friday 10/3 at 4 PM EST to discuss using #POCUS to evaluate central lines! Register here: https://t.co/6D87TZfM4t @NeoTECaN #MedEd

How Donor Human Milk Storage Impacts Gut Health in Preemies

Milk matters: How donor human milk storage affects preemie gut health | EurekAlert! https://t.co/E4MSBzq0zs

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk,

Happy Sunday! I am proud to say I live for Jesus Christ. Who’s with me?

Happy to share my editorial on the landmark NIH breast milk study by @mtperrin (Perrin Lab) and colleagues. #humanmilk #donormilk #science https://t.co/WsBF89wGyd