Global Neonatal Journal Club - August 2025

We are so thrilled to announce another amazing international venture for our neonatologists, paediatricians, allied health clinicians, neonatal nurses, midwives and even keen obstetricians!

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Mercy Perinatal brings you the first Global Neonatal Journal Club!

LIVE via zoom, we will have an international panel discussing landmark neonatal papers, and whether or not they should change your clinical practice… even immediately!
 
Hosted by Mercy Perinatal's own Prof. Brett Manley and Dr Shiraz Badurdeen, and the inimitable Prof. Ju Lee Oei from Mater Brisbane, the sessions will reflect the successful format of the established Global Obstetrics Journal Club. Shiraz will provide a deep explanation of the papers under review, and we will have insights directly from the key investigators of the studies! This will be followed by an erudite conversation with our national and international guest panelists including: world-renowned physiologist Prof. Graeme Polglase and the incredible Dr. Kong Juin Yee from Singapore. Then a live Q&A with the online audience! We have you hooked right?

Read on for the practice changing papers we will be discussing first, who will be joining the panel, and of course don't forget to REGISTER via the link below! 

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Watch this great Global Neonatal Journal Club HERE! 

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Paper 1: Does physiological-based umbilical cord clamping improve outcomes for very preterm infants?

Physiological versus time based cord clamping in very preterm infants (ABC3):  A parallel-group, multicentre, randomised, controlled superiority trial. 

Knol  et.al., The Lancet, Dec 2024 doi: 10.1016

We've all been waiting for the results of important trials of resuscitation on the cord! Surely this will improve health outcomes in very preterm infants, right?? Right??! Well maybe not... 

We will hear from Dr. Ronny Knol (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), lead author of the ABC3 trial, and the expert panel will contemplate the findings of this and other recent trials, and the related questions that remain unanswered.

Paper 2: Does providing 100% oxygen during delayed cord clamping, compared with 30% oxygen, reduce hypoxemia in extremely preterm infants?

Deferred Cord Clamping With High Oxygen in Extremely Preterm Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial 

Katheria et. al., Jama Paediatrics, July 2025 doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.2128

But maybe it's all about how much oxygen we give to very preterm infants during DCC? The recently published DOXIE trial provides food for thought... We will again hear directly from the first author, resuscitation and cord clamping expert A/Prof. Anup Katheria (San Diego, USA), before a deep dive into the results and their implications with our panel.