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Brain Cooling Club: What do we cover?
The Brain Cooling Club was created to help NICU's in California meet the State guidelines for staff education but has expanded to so much more. We are have brought together a group of international faculty who are experts in neonatal hypothermia. In this course we...
The Brain Cooling Club: Becoming Passionate Through Education
The Brain Cooling Club is an online, on-demand, lecture series featuring 11 international guest speakers who are experts on state of the art in therapeutic hypothermia for neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. I’m so excited to be able to bring this material...
NICU News: How a Weather Forecast Tool Was Used to Better NICU Care
Last spring, UT Southwest Medical Center began utilizing an analytical tool typically used for predicting long term weather patterns. But instead of meteorology, the team of pediatric researchers used the tool to help reduce brain injury in infants who suffered oxygen...
Why San Diego is always a GREAT idea
San Diego, California isn’t the worst place to spend your free time. Beautiful beaches, amazing food, rich history and a tremendous amount of hometown pride... what's not to adore? So of course having a great reason to visit (like the ONE conference, for example) only...
The 4B’s of Developmental Care – Body
In this article, I'll be sharing the next B in the 4B's of Developmental Care - Body. I think we would all agree that therapeutic positioning along with minimizing sensory over-stimulation have been the cornerstone of developmental care since its inception. But if we...
What I’ve Been Up To This Year :: Kathi’s Travels
Since the ONE Conference, I've had a whirlwind amount of travel (from Munich, Germany to Sao Paulo, Brazil, and several trips across the US too). I am finally taking some time off this month and heading out to Yosemite camping for a few days over the 4th of July...
NICU News: New app keeps parents updated on babies in NICU
Recently, a new app was released that is keeping families better updated on their hospitalized loved ones. The app, named EASE, allows hospitals to quickly update families in a more personal way by sending photos and videos of their loved ones. According to their...
How to Talk With Parents of Infants With HIE
In this recently published article, a NICU research team from Maine Medical Center in the US interviewed 30 parents and grandparents of infants who had received cooling for HIE within the last 24 months. These parents candidly share their stories and provide us with...
Is aEEG a Foreign Language To You?
I don't know about you, but I actually enjoy the challenge in learning a foreign language. My language of choice is Spanish and since I recently purchased a home in Mexico, my skills have really been put to the test. I started to realize that my vacation Spanish (una...
Developmental Care Book Club : Month Two
The 2nd month of the developmental care book club was held on May 29th. We reviewed our first two chapters from the Developmental Care Text Book (NANN, 2009). Chapter 2 and Chapter 7. Chapter 2 focused on the theoretical framework of developmental care, definitions...