Not every neonatologist may be familiar with the clinical approach and the conceptual understanding of neonatal seizures from the neurologist's perspective. Understanding the neurologist's approach will help facilitate teamwork and optimal neurological outcome for the baby. At the conclusion of the activity, participants will appropriately implement at least one new strategy, technique(s) or intervention(s) in seizure management.

The field of fetal surgery is evolving quickly. Health professionals should update with recent advances for referral the patients to the fetal center. In addition, this will help with better counseling with this patient population and offering fetal surgery for maximizing the outcomes for these patients.

This activity will provide information and analysis on recently published studies in the areas of steroid treatment, early amino acid use, and neonatal opioid withdrawal.

This activity is needed to better understand why promising therapies like erythropoietin may fail to prove effective in large randomized clinical trials. 

While not considered often, oxygen can be very effective when treating retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Additionally, this presentation shows how ROP blinds babies worldwide and what we can do to help.

Confirmatory testing and clinical care and management are inconsistent for newborn infants at risk for a treatable inborn error of metabolism identified through newborn screening.

With more recent improvements in the survival of extremely preterm infants in the 22-25 weeks range, the optimal approaches to initial respiratory support will be reviewed to minimize gaps that may exist in current knowledge or existing practice.

Renal failure in the NICU is increasingly more common yet research regarding its treatment is less commonly known.  During this presentation, common approaches to renal failure will be reviewed.

Kernicterus and severe hyperbilirubinemia are two conditions that have historically not been well explored from a health disparities standpoint. Lack of awareness of the paradox between hyperbilirubinemia severity and kernicterus disparity have led to adverse health outcomes for black infants in the United States. This activity is designed to educate clinicians on the existence of the disparity and offer reasonable approaches to reducing the health disparity and improving care.

Although antenatal corticosteroids are well-known to decrease perinatal morbidity and mortality when administered to pregnant patients with threatened preterm birth, they are given with optimal timing in less than half of cases of early preterm birth. Further, overuse may result in long-term neurodevelopmental risks to the offspring.