The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#393 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Antibiotic Use in HIE, A Tale of Two Strategies
22 minutes Posted Jan 13, 2026 at 7:00 am.
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Send us a text In this episode of Journal Club, Ben and Daphna dive into a multicenter retrospective study from the European Journal of Pediatrics questioning the necessity of universal empiric antibiotics in neonates undergoing therapeutic hypothermia for HIE. Comparing Italian and Belgian cohorts, the team discusses the reality of a 111 Number Needed to Treat (NNT) for a single case of culture-proven sepsis. From the diagnostic challenges of overlapping clinical markers to the fascinating "...