Episode Details
Back to Episodes📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from March 14th 2026
Description
The PDA debate has a new data point. TREOCAPA, a phase 3 multicenter European RCT, tested prophylactic acetaminophen in infants born at 23 to 28 weeks. The ductus closed more reliably. Whether that translated into better survival without severe morbidity at 36 weeks is where the conversation gets interesting.
Also this week: a large multicenter cohort study puts real numbers on diazoxide use across US NICUs and the pulmonary hypertension risk that has driven so much practice variation. The NeoDry trial tests whether drying very preterm infants before plastic wrapping improves normothermia at admission, with results that are a good reminder of why we run trials. And a retrospective from NYU raises the question of whether standard caffeine dosing in the most premature infants is leaving something on the table.
The episode closes with Ben and Eli on Florida’s infant formula heavy metal report and why publishing findings without methods may be as much a public health problem as the data itself.
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