Don Sharkey

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Join us at the 17th Dresden Symposium on Feto-Neonatal Health & ESN Spring School under the leadership of ESPR Senior Member Prof Mario Rüdiger!📍 Dresden, 12-14 March.📅 Thu–Fri: cutting-edge talks; 🛠 Sat: hands-on workshops, incl. ESN NPE training. See the full programme here: tinyurl.com/3rhz4cuy

The next NeoTRIPs Lunch & Learn!

🧬 Clinical Genetics in Neonatal Medicine
🗓️ Friday 23rd January 12-2pm
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Developing and validating an explainable digital mortality prediction tool for extremely preterm infants Author summary Increasingly, more premature babies are being born even earlier and surviving. Each premature baby is unique, with different combinations of factors affecting their chances of survival....

journals.plos.org/digitalhealt... New paper out today from @tngchang.bsky.social from University of Nottingham with many collaborators (thanks). Excellent OA online extreme preterm mortality prediction tool with neat explainable element. Great for all perinatal teams.

🚀Calling all neonatal & paediatric researchers! Submit your abstract for #CEPAS2026 in Lyon (28–31 Oct) by 1 Apr 2026. Share your innovations, gain skills, and connect globally to shape the future of child health! www.cepas.org/abstracts?ut...

I've seen the published data on this which are worrying. I'm less convinced of the causal suggestion but certainly more work could tease thar out. Having a plastic tube in your trachea/bloodstream/GI tract for months may not be without hidden issues.

Early Intratracheal Budesonide for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia This randomized clinical trial conducted at centers of the United States Neonatal Research Network assesses whether early intratracheal administration of a combination of budesonide mixed with surfact...

Our BiB trial manuscript now published in JAMA...Early Intratracheal Budesonide for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Editorial "Under an administration that says it is focused on making America healthy again, why are we denigrating and discarding our single most cost-effective public health tools?" "Risk and Benefit" by Eric J. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.

Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin asks why, under an administration that says it is focused on making America healthy again, we are denigrating and discarding our single most cost-effective public health tools — vaccines. Read the full editorial: nej.md/4mtH8Xm

#MedSky #PublicHealth

Sad to see this come to fruition. @stefanjohansson.nicuverse.org.ap.brid.gy your analysis gets a mention but despite the strengths it is dismissed...😔

Great to see neonatal studies of this type being published in JAMA.

Very thorough review and highlights early challenges FGR infants need to overcome. As highlighted, tricky to identify who truly is FGR vs constitutionally small.

Early days but a promising approach. Likely to be more challenging in my population of newborn infants but would be great to explore....

Interesting approach.

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Some great baseline data to see how RSV prophylaxis works out in coming years.

Very nice. Agree, neonatology should not follow the historical approach of "one size fits all", we moved past that long ago and need to personalise treatments for the infant in front of us.

You can't beat some baby feet to grab your attention and make you read!

I've listened to almost all of these and they are great. Chatting about neonatal research and care. Well worth a listen for all involved in the care of newborns. Good work Mario and @espr-esn.bsky.social

Really interesting study pushing the boundaries on this tricky and often poor outcome condition. Perhaps a condition that one day will have a handful of centres with expertise to treat and hopefully improve outcomes.

YouTube video by NEJM Group How Win Ratios Work | NEJM Evidence

The win ratio method is gaining traction in #RCTs. Is it just a trend or a smarter way to look at composite hierarchical outcomes? We break it down in our latest Stats, STAT!📊 in NEJM Evidence. youtube.com/watch?v=jKtF... #stats @nejm.org @sarahgorey.bsky.social @chardin.bsky.social @ai.nejm.org

Mum of 'miracle' baby on the pioneering surgery which saved her life The procedure prevented an extremely premature birth and the baby is now doing well

www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

A graph showing the crude cumulative incidence of malaria infection in the 6 months after the start of three monthly rounds of mass administration of ivermectin at a dose of 400 μg per kilogram of body weight, as compared with albendazole at a dose of 400 mg.

Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that kills mosquitoes feeding on treated persons. In this trial in Kenya, ivermectin given once per month for 3 months led to a 26% lower incidence of malaria than albendazole. Full trial results: nej.md/4lIyNzB

#MedSky #IDSky

Not convinced this is the answer to this problem.

Contribution of ethnicity and deprivation to paediatric critical care outcomes in the UK, 2008–21: a national retrospective cohort study Variation in PICU mortality by ethnicity and area-level deprivation highlights the importance of further investigation into systemic drivers of disparities in PICU outcomes in the UK. Targeted strateg...

Well done to Hannah Mitchell & her great team who produced this hugely important work:

Contribution of ethnicity and deprivation to paediatric critical care outcomes in the UK, 2008–21: a national retrospective cohort study - The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Impressive technological advancement.

Implementation of active therapeutic hypothermia across a regional transport network for infants transferred for neonatal encephalopathy Pediatric Research - Implementation of active therapeutic hypothermia across a regional transport network for infants transferred for neonatal encephalopathy

Check out our new open access paper in @pediatricresearch.bsky.social . Highlighting the impact on thermal management, HIE and transport metrics following implementation of active therapeutic hypothermia by regional transport and referring centres for infants transferred for neo HIE rdcu.be/etXDT

Fabulous week hosted by @research4babies.bsky.social in Canada with our team member Syed, neonatal clinical fellow. Great hospitality Georg. Some amazing data on our new neonatal vital signs patch during cardiac arrest scenarios. Thanks for looking after Syed for another couple of weeks!

Graphical abstract for the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health paper "All-cause mortality and infection-related outcomes of hospital-initiated kangaroo care versus conventional neonatal care for low-birthweight infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis".

The evidence on infection outcomes of hospital-initiated kangaroo care is unclear.

In @lancetchildadol.bsky.social, authors evaluate the role of hospital-initiated kangaroo care in preventing mortality, sepsis, and invasive infection in low-birthweight infants: tinyurl.com/46aunenf