WVU Medication Youngsters’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit joins the BPD Collaborative

Posted on 2/24/2023

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The BPD Collaborative just lately voted to make the WVU Medication Youngsters’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) its 36^th member. 

The Collaborative is a multidisciplinary group of healthcare services which are working to handle the gaps within the analysis surrounding bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a power lung illness that impacts untimely infants, usually these born essentially the most prematurely. 

Its mission is “to function a catalyst for enhancing the life-long outcomes of infants who develop extreme BPD by fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation within the identification and therapy of those extremely susceptible sufferers throughout all of Facilities by way of the sharing of knowledge, the event and implementation of high quality enchancment initiatives, in addition to fostering analysis protocols to handle essentially the most urgent gaps in our information.”

“We’re proud to be a part of the BPD Collaborative as a result of it provides us the chance to not solely affect, however entry, analysis concerning the therapy and prevention of BPD,” Cody Smith, M.D., WVU Medication Youngsters’s neonatologist and affiliate professor of Pediatrics, stated. “There may be nonetheless a lot we don’t learn about BPD, and we wish to do the whole lot we are able to to enhance the usual of take care of our sufferers.”

The BPD Collaborative began in 2012 and has grown to incorporate 36 collaborating hospitals with greater than 200 collaborating clinicians and greater than 20 varieties of disciplines. It has developed a BPD registry and has printed peer-reviewed articles that assist to enhance the therapy and prevention of BPD.

“We glance ahead working with different BPD Collaborative members to carry the advantages of the newest medical analysis to our most severely affected BPD sufferers,” Autumn Kiefer, M.D., WVU Medication Youngsters’s NICU medical director and Neonatology chief, stated. 

“Our NICU has been dedicated to offering wonderful take care of sufferers with extreme BPD for a few years by creating particular academic supplies for households, a BPD follow-up clinic, and a core group of BPD nurses, respiratory therapists, bodily and occupational therapists, and physicians with a particular curiosity in BPD throughout the NICU. Becoming a member of the collaborative is a crucial subsequent step for our NICU workforce in increasing assets for our sufferers with extreme BPD and their households.”

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