#445 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from May 30th 2026

About this episode

The episode discusses various topics related to neonatal care, including opioid withdrawal dosing and vaccine policy.

Send us Fan Mail Opioid withdrawal dosing, intranasal breast milk, human milk fortification in Japan, neonatal dysphagia, and vaccine policy. A full week on the Incubator Journal Club. Ben opens with the Optimized NOW trial in JAMA: symptom-based dosing reduced time to medical readiness for discharge by nearly two and a half days in NOWS infants managed with Eat Sleep Console, and allowed 65% of pharmacologically treated infants to avoid scheduled opioids entirely. Daphna reviews a small RCT ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben Courchia, Daphna Yasova Barbeau

Topics covered

• opioid withdrawal
• neonatal care
• vaccine policy
• human milk fortification
• medical readiness
• Eat Sleep Console

Keywords

• opioid withdrawal
• neonatal dysphagia
• intranasal breast milk
• human milk fortification
• medical readiness
• Eat Sleep Console
• Optimized NOW trial

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JAMA

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