Have you registered for the APLUS conference in Dallas, Texas? Come and listen to a set of interesting talks, participate in workshops designed to help you improve NICU respiratory outcomes. I will be giving a talk, and conducting a workshop. See you there! Lecture: Preventing

When we miss a finding on a radiograph, what are the possible mechanisms? They are Search, Recognition, and Decision error. The figures below using the example of a nodule on an adult CXR illustrate these mechanisms well. The white line denotes the path of the observer's gaze,

Variability of Care Practices for Extremely Early Deliveries Ten year data from 13 US centers Care of babies 22-24 weeks gestation Data for 22 week gestation, epoch 1 vs 2: -Neonatology consultation (38 vs 64%, P < .001), -Corticosteroids (11 vs 30%, P < .001), -Live birth (66

In medicine, should we spend more time teaching those skills and aptitudes, such as ethics, communication skills, and leadership, that are not as likely to be replaced by machines, and less time on those that are? Daniel Sokol explores this question bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Month 1 pearls from palliative fellowship: ⁃ allow silence, listen more than you speak - you know medicine but patients are the experts of their own body - you don’t decide how much pain someone is in - an “acceptable” way of living for a patient is not your choice/decision

So true!

Evaluating decision regret after extremely preterm birth Decision regret (remorse following a purposeful determination) is poorly studied in neonatology. When mothers of babies born at 22-25 weeks gestation were surveyed using a Decision Regret Scale (55% response rate), all had

1973 photo of two of the most influential neonatologists of our times, Dr. Jack Sinclair and Dr. Saroj Saigal. Sinclair was a pioneer of evidence-based neonatology, a Cochrane editor, and a great influence on me. Dr. Saigal is renowned for her studies on the quality of life and

After a spike of abandoned infants throughout Harris County and the Houston area, The Woodlands wants to get a Safe Haven baby box installed by next year. Troy Kless  khou.com/article/news/l…