March 28, 2019
How a Doctor Entrepreneur Built a Neonatal House Call Practice
Sonal Patel is a neonatologist who recognized a gap in the transition of care from a hospital delivery to discharge to the first pediatrician visit,...
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Listen Now December 10, 2018
Targeted Therapy to Reduce Relapse of Pediatric Leukemia
Patients that have residual leukemia stem cells after chemotherapy and other treatments have substantially higher risk for relapse. Survival rates for relapsed leukemia are very...
February 15, 2018
Precision Therapeutics in the NICU
Neonatal pharmacotherapy is a field ripe with opportunity. Efficacy and toxicity is unpredictable and varies greatly for many drug classes commonly used. Weight-based dosing continues...
October 31, 2017
Help for Opiate Exposed Babies: Family-Centered NAS Care Initiative
The recent trend in infants born exposed to neurotropic substances during pregnancy is increasing at an alarming rate across the United States, posing a public...
December 5, 2016
Bench to Bedside: Research Focused on Improving BPD Outcomes
Each year 13,000 to 15,000 extremely premature infants develop severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Despite major advances in neonatal intensive care and improved survival of infants...
February 5, 2016
Neonatal/Pediatric Transport: Experience Matters
Typically, less than 10 percent of the patients transported by traditional “adult” transport teams are under the age of 14. Research has shown that outcomes...
January 7, 2016
Home Ventilator Program: Treating Infants and Children in the Comfort of Home
Children’s Mercy Kansas City’s Infant Tracheostomy and Home Ventilator Program provides infants and children who require long-term ventilation, individualized care in the home setting. Children’s...
October 26, 2015
Neonatal Simulation: Practice Makes Perfect
Simulation-based training facilitates the use of higher order thinking skills. The simulations Children’s Mercy Kansas City have developed in the NICU, Fetal Health Center and...
October 5, 2015
Polyposis: Are Orphan Drugs the Answer?
Researchers at Children’s Mercy Kansas City are using a multi-pronged research approach to investigate the underlying causes of inherited conditions and possible new treatment options....
