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Neonatologist and Professor of Newborn Medicine, Mercy Hospital for Women and The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia | Co-PI of @platipus.bsky.social

Registration for Cool Topics in Neonatology 😎 November 2025 in Melbourne is NOW OPEN! #neosky Anup Katheria! Neena Modi! Richard Martin! TORPIDO 30/60 results! Coconut oil trial (COSI-2) results! AIROplane results (maybe)! t.co/DwpA3rkUCi

Global Neonatal Journal Club Sept 24th 1700 AEST Discussing: Lancet Commission on the Future of Neonatology, incl. interviews w/ Danny DeLuca & Steve Abman Featuring: Arti Maria, Alex Stevenson, Hoang Thi Tran, Patrick Too, Tendai Mutema & Peter Davis mercyhealthau.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

There’s a specific reason I have the idk 🤷🏼‍♂️ emoji in my profile It’s because idk 🤷🏼‍♂️ a LOT of stuff, and openly admit that We are playing catch up in neonatology because we have so many established practices that are not strongly based in evidence #neosky

Thrilled to have Prof. Georg Schmölzer @research4babies.bsky.social presenting on resuscitation studies @mercyperinatal.bsky.social #neosky

Delighted & honoured to be contributing to the iconic “Cool Topics in Neonatology 2025” at The Women’s Melbourne with great friends & colleagues! @ebneo.bsky.social @drbretty.bsky.social @nnrdbase.bsky.social @europerinatal.bsky.social www.thewomens.org.au/health-profe...

NEONATAL RESPIRATORY TRIALS IN SICK & PRETERM NEWBORN INFANTS With Professor Brett Manley, Consultant Neonatologist Mercy Hospital For Women, Melbourne & Professor of Neonatal Medicine Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health, University of Melbourne, Australia youtu.be/NAY_0xBGsrw

The most recent AAP SONPM Journal Club webinar is available - youtu.be/beh82Mgor7Q Dr. Aung (Neonatal-Perinatal Fellow, St. Christopher's Hospital) gave an excellent overview of the PLUSS trial. Thank you to @drbretty.bsky.social and Dr. Watterberg for joining! #neobluesky

Caffeine is good for the preterm brain; might more caffeine be even better? One of the pivotal RCTs in neonatology was the CAP study (Schmidt B, et al. Long-term effects of caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(19):1893–902). We performed that study because there was no…

Does counting ribs on neonatal CXR really work? In 218 babies, we found a weak correlation with CT lung volumes. Time to abandon old dogmas? Lead by Dr Sophia Dahm published in @jama.com pediatrics. @davidtingay1.bsky.social @nhmrc.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

One of the pivotal RCTs in neonatology was the CAP study (Schmidt B, et al. Long-term effects of caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(19):1893–902). We performed that study because there was no data on the long term impacts of caffeine, and there was a worry that blocking adenosine receptors in babies having multiple hypoxic episodes might be a bad idea. Adenosine is an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is produced during hypoxia, and decreases the brain metabolic rate to protect against hypoxic damage. So giving caffeine to babies having a lot of apnoeas could potentially have been a bad idea.

This cross-sectional study investigates if use of diaphragm position relative to posterior ribs on the chest radiograph of neonates reliably estimates aerated lung volume.