The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#440 - 🔵 [PAS 2026] - Is LISA the Future of Surfactant Delivery for Premature Babies?
11 minutes Posted Apr 29, 2026 at 1:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail Dr. Surabhi Aggarwal, neonatologist at Stony Brook University, joins Ben and Rupa to share five years of experience building a LISA — Less Invasive Surfactant Administration — program from the ground up at her institution. She walks through the obstacles of getting IRB approval, gaining clinical buy-in from colleagues comfortable with intubation, and how the introduction of video laryngoscopy was the turning point that finally got the practice off the ground. She shares early...