The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#453 - [Neo News] - 📌 Are You Still Assuming Every Newborn Got Vitamin K?
17 minutes Posted Jul 17, 2026 at 6:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail Vitamin K refusal has crossed 5%. That's one in twenty babies, and the curve is bending the wrong way. Ben and Eli work through a new Pediatrics case review that opens with a warning shot, that hemorrhagic presentation in an infant should no longer be a diagnostic mystery, alongside a JAMA letter tracking refusal from 2.9% in 2017 to 5.2% in 2024. Eighty-one times the risk. Intracranial hemorrhage in most late-onset cases. Twenty percent mortality. They talk about the halo ef...