More Controversies in Neonatal Intensive Care (2011)

Sign up today for our new iNICQ Internet Collaborative, More Controversies in Neonatal Intensive Care. This series will include six ninety minute web sessions designed to help the multidisciplinary team in your neonatal intensive care unit:

• Assess your own practice
• Review the evidence
• Identify opportunities for improvement
• Translate the evidence into daily practice

The sessions will follow a standard format. Each session will include a case presentation, a plenary presentation by an expert that reviews the evidence and addresses the implications for practice and for research, a debriefing of the case in light of the evidence, and a question and answer period.

Your team for the sessions may contain as many people as you want. Each team will use a single Internet connection and a single phone line so you will need to schedule the meeting in a conference room large enough to hold your team. You will view the slides over the Internet, and participate in the audio using a conference phone. Most teams will use a digital projector to display the slides.

Although these sessions will stand on their own as state of the art lectures, we have additional aspirations. We want these to be working sessions in which a multidisciplinary team from your NICU applies the evidence to improve your own practice. In light of this we will provide a brief self assessment tool to you before each session to assist your team in assessing your local practices. We will also ask you to schedule an additional 30 minutes following each 90 minute web session for your team to remain in the room, reflect on your practice, and identify any opportunities for improvement and next steps for action.

The subjects we have chosen are controversial. The evidence in many cases will not provide a clear answer. Tradeoffs will need to be assessed and various points of view considered. However, the topics we have chosen all arise routinely in daily NICU care. We hope that this series will help your team to address them, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate the available evidence into daily practice.