Standardizing the Evaluation and Management of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in a Level IV NICU.

Objectives: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a severe intestinal inflammatory disease and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in NICUs. Management of NEC is variable because of the lack of evidence-based recommendations. It is widely accepted that standardization of patient care leads to improved outcomes.

Effect of a Low-Dose/High-Frequency Training in Introducing a Nurse-Led Neonatal Advanced Life Support Service in a Referral Hospital in Ethiopia.

In Ethiopia, birth asphyxia causes ~30% of all neonatal deaths and 11-31% of deaths among neonates delivered in healthcare facilities that have breathing difficulty at birth. This study aimed to examine the impact of low-dose, high-frequency (LDHF) training for introducing a nurse-led neonatal advanced life support (NALS) service in a tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia. Through a retrospective cohort study, a total of 12,001 neonates born post-implementation of the NALS service (between June 2017 and March 2019) were compared to 2,066 neonates born before its implementation (between June 2016 and September 2016).

Relationship Between Moral Distress and Intent to Leave a Position Among Neonatal Intensive Care Nurses.

Background: The phenomenon of moral distress is prevalent in the literature, but little is known about the experiences of nurses working in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In addition, a paucity of literature exists exploring the relationship between moral distress and intent to leave a position in NICU nurses.

Purpose: To explore the phenomenon of moral distress in NICU nurses using the Measure of Moral Distress for Health Care Professionals (MMD-HP) survey.

Rho/SMAD/mTOR triple inhibition enables long-term expansion of human neonatal tracheal aspirate-derived airway basal cell-like cells.

Background: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia remains one of the most common complications of prematurity, despite significant improvements in perinatal care. Functional modeling of human lung development and disease, like BPD, is limited by our ability to access the lung and to maintain relevant progenitor cell populations in culture.

Methods: We supplemented Rho/SMAD signaling inhibition with mTOR inhibition to generate epithelial basal cell-like cell lines from tracheal aspirates of neonates.