The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#203 - The Giants of Neonatology - Fighting for Air (Pr. Ola Didrik Saugstad)
50 minutes Posted Apr 21, 2024 at 6:00 am.
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Send us a Text Message.In this episode of The Incubator podcast, hosts Ben Courchia and Daphna Yasova Barbeau interview Professor Ola Didrik Saugstad, a pioneer in neonatology research from Norway. Professor Saugstad shares his journey of discovering hypoxanthine as a biochemical marker of asphyxia in newborns and his groundbreaking work on resuscitating babies with room air instead of 100% oxygen. He explains how his research challenged the long-standing dogma of using pure oxygen for resusc...