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Stefan Johansson, MD PhD

@johansson247.bsky.social

Neonatologist based in Stockholm ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช - working for the world in the Dept of Brilliant Ideas, mostly active on 99nicu.org (forums) and nicuverse.org (Mastodon) COI: founder of Neobiomics, an academic startup at the Karolinska Institutet Science Park. Etc!

259 Followers  |  308 Following  |  25 Posts  |  Joined: 03.10.2023  |  2.6925

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Bridgy Fed Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Thanks Samson, got your comment on Mastodon but could not reply there. Anyway, I agree with your point, but it is frustrating and contradictory to read the many papers with positive results and the lack of longterm benefit. It does not align and patient deserve better!

bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bs...

29.10.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for comment! To which I reply from my Bksy account, the bridge to the brighter Mastodon side does not work ๐Ÿ’ฏ.
Great video! Will bring that back to the #nicuverse

23.09.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃPublication alert๐Ÿ“ฃ

Highly anticipated "Consensus Recommendations to Improve Neonatology Staffing" are out now!

These recommendations prioritize patient safety & physician well-being & will greatly benefit our patients & workforce.

Please read and share widely!

doi.org/10.1542/peds...

15.05.2025 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Great news, congrats Mark!

14.03.2025 10:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Neonatal Cyanosis: A Diagnostic Challenge Welcome to our interactive case-based quiz!IntroductionA newborn presents with persistent central cyanosis despite good respiratory effort and normal initial evaluations. As your standard intervention...

Join many other neonatal professionals and take a short quiz on a cyanotic infant!

And a small hint for full points, if we ask you if you have a CO-oximeter at your unit, just say yes ๐Ÿ˜Ž. Sorry for that..

99nicu.org/quizzes/quiz...

#Neosky

12.03.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And I miss some basicsโ€ฆ for example, an adjusted OR needs to be seen with the crude OR (IMHO), and I cannot clearly see what the regression model included. And whereโ€™s the DAG?!
I am sceptic ๐Ÿค”, โ€œmore research neededโ€!

12.03.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just read quickly but think this would be a great paper for dissection in a clinical epi workshop! I am not too convinced about the approach, and just wonder how various biases are handled. Q to be looked into also in the Nordic registers?!

11.03.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The WHO PROPS Trial (PRObiotics in Preterm and Small for gestational age infants) The aim of the trial is to assess the effect of probiotic supplementation with the strains Bifidobacterium longum subsp. Infantis DSM33361 (B. Infantis) and Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG DSM33156 (L. rha...

The WHO PROPS trial FTW!
14k preterm or SGA infants (<2.5kg?) to be randomised to probiotics or placebo, to estimate mortality, morbidity, and growth in the first six months of life in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
#Gates foundation is the funder.

www.who.int/publications...

#NeoSky

01.03.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The #COLLABORATErct will tackle the uncertainties around the effect of pasteurised donor milk, formula & fortifier on NEC. We are holding a series of discussion webinars. Links at www.imperial.ac.uk/neonatal-dat... All welcome! @bapmofficial.bsky.social @neonatalnursesuk.bsky.social

23.02.2025 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats!

28.02.2025 21:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Japanese study of 22-25 wk #preemies
Remarkable survival rates at discharge were 83%, 86%, 93%, and 93% at 22, 23, 24, and 25 weeks. The overall percentage of normal DQ was 26/47 (55%)
Outcomes were different on gases in the 1st 0-6 hours
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39294298/
#NeoSky #MedSky

22.02.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you have advice on good (more factual than opionated) summaries about the #letby case?
I started a discussion in the 99nicu forums and would be great with some more background reading

https://99nicu.org/forums/topic/2772-the-letby-case-in-the-uk-reviewed-by-neonatology-experts-implications/

22.02.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€As we have foreseenโ€ :)
Can you check the link and share it again? Or share the PMID?

22.02.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Microsoft Forms

Final call for the International Survey on Probiotics use in Preterm Infants! It is still open for responders (we want to reach the goal of 200 responders).
Please consider!

forms.office.com/e/0rbYem4Bwg

#NeoSky

12.02.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thanks and hi @bethosmond.bsky.social , looking fw to follow your posts!

08.02.2025 11:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hope less hours! Twitter reconnected me w Kevin Ives, hope to meet up with him some time 40y later we met :)

08.02.2025 07:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mother Tongue Rebekka Karijord ยท Album ยท 2017 ยท 11 songs

Understand, my refl was that SHOs had a rough life (many more hours than in Sweden!)
On topic - Rebekka Karijord made this record after their stay in our NICU, I keep coming back to this LP (and on Spotify)

open.spotify.com/album/0d1Ybe...

08.02.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#NICU poetry!

08.02.2025 07:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NICU poems?! Is this book still around, e-version maybe? Would be great to read, the NICU has poetic narratives IMHO. Was thinking before there should be a book like Nerudas โ€20 poems of love and one fearful songโ€ (free translation!)
BTW was an elective student at the JRH NICU 91 :)

08.02.2025 07:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In this cohort study, PISCOPO et al. analyze data from the the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network (ANZNN) to investigate the relationship between birth weight and IVH in very preterm neonates @atulmalhotra.bsky.social
buff.ly/4hKcIhH
#neosky #neoEBM #EBNEOalerts

06.02.2025 11:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Expertpanel: Inga bevis fรถr att sjukskรถterska mรถrdat spรคdbarn Den brittiska neonatalsjukskรถterskan Lucy Letby dรถmdes fรถr mord pรฅ sju spรคdbarn. Nu har en grupp medicinska experter kommit fram till att det inte finns belรคgg fรถr att nรฅgon avsiktligt skadat barnen. ...

Interesting to see how the Letby case will evolve. One of the neonatology experts assessing the causes of deaths is my former mentor Prof Norman, and another involved person is Prof Lee, both known as sound and well-regarded #NeoEBM profiles.
lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyh...

06.02.2025 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Supplemental Iron and Recombinant Erythropoietin for Anemia in Infants Born Very Preterm: A Survey of Clinical Practice in Europe To survey practices of iron and recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEpo) administration to infants born preterm across Europe.

Interesting paper about European iron supplementation and Epo use in preterm infants, all use iron supplements but big variations in Epo use.
I don't anyone in Sweden uses Epo as standard of care (as suggested by the paper).
www.jpeds.com/article/S002...

05.02.2025 08:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yepp!

05.02.2025 08:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Microsoft Forms

If you have five minutes :)
we are still collecting data to our Survey on the if's and why's on probiotics use in preterm infants.
Please consider to reply, link below.
https://forms.office.com/e/0rbYem4Bwg
#NeoMastodon

16.12.2024 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Morn! Jag tรคnker sรฅhรคr - fler behรถver byta platform, till slut kommer X sjunka in i sin egen sรถrja. Fรถr svenska valet kรคnner jag mig inte sรฅ orolig, รคven SoMe-mรถnstret ovan vรคl redan finns i Sve (visst รคr SD redan vรคl i topp pรฅ FB & X nรคr det gรคller virala grejer?)

30.10.2024 06:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mastodon NICU staff network

Hi there! Bluesky is still in an early phase but letโ€™s hope for a proper alternative to NeoTwitter.
We in the @99nicu team opened a Mastodon server AKA nicuverse.org , so far it is also a bit dead :) Mostly the Incubator, Prof K Barrington and myself there :)

11.10.2024 12:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi Mariana! but I still feel a bit confused here, in the NeoSky list, there are still cats and all kinds of non-NICU stuff. I vote try to build a #nicuverse on the @99nicu Mastodon server
:)

03.10.2024 10:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just realised, Bluesky does not support hashtagsโ€ฆ

04.10.2023 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

#NICU friends here - how about gathering our community around the tag #NeoSky ?
Of course #NeoEBM and related tags like #foamneo should also work well

04.10.2023 08:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ Registration is officially OPEN for the 99nicu Meetup: The Future of Neonatal Care! Secure your spot now to join us in beautiful Lisbon in April 2024 99nicu.org/meetup/%F0%9...

16.09.2023 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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