The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#434 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Can Ultrasound Help Us Better Identify Surgical NEC?
16 minutes Posted Apr 14, 2026 at 6:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail In this Journal Club episode, Ben takes the lead and reviews a prospective cohort pilot study from the Archives of Disease in Childhood examining whether combining abdominal ultrasound with plain radiography can improve surgical risk stratification in neonates with suspected NEC. With mortality remaining as high as 20–40% and diagnosis still heavily reliant on clinical judgment, the stakes couldn't be higher. Ben walks through the study's unsupervised clustering approach, exp...