Congenital Heart Disease

In this episode of Neonatal Conversations Associate Professor Kath Carmo sits down to chat with Paediatric Intensivist Dr Elena Cavazzoni to demystify ECMO. They discuss when and why we might institute ECMO in the newborn, the risks and benefits and how we might all collaborate better to ensure the best outcomes for our tiniest patients

In this episode, Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding speaks about her gained wisdom around the metabolic transition to normoglycaemia and growth in newborns

Dr Kath Carmo talks transitional circulation with Professor Martin Kluckow

This is a very personal episode where I talk with my Aunt about life and maternity care in the 20th Century and her experience of COVID19 as an octogenerian.

Kristen discusses the complex neonatal care for babies with two of the more common congenital abdominal wall defects

Green vomit, holes in the diaphragm and paediatric transplant surgery

In this neonatal conversation I talk with Nadine Griffiths - clinical nurse consultant and PhD candidate, about caring for the whole baby as a developing person, in the NICU and in the retrieval context.

In this episode I chat with Dr Christian Turner - Paediatric Cardiologist who specialises in electrophysiology

Joining neonatal conversations today is Dr Yishay Orr - Australia's only female paediatric cardiac surgeon. We discuss in depth the preoperative care of the baby with hypoplastic left heart syndrome among other aspects of life as a surgeon for small babies.

Kath Carmo talks inotropes with Nick Evans