NIRS Monitoring in the NICU

How does NIRS monitoring work, and why should it be a part of monitoring protocols in the NICU? To answer these questions, we talk with Dr. Muzafar Gani Abdul Wahab, Associate Professor in Pediatrics at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and Dr. Yasser Elsayed, neonatologist at the Health Sciences Center in Winnipeg and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Manitoba.

Om Podcasten

The MedEd Learning Experience podcast is a weekly podcast series that provides brief, interview-style discussions with clinical experts and is designed to teach safe and effective use of different therapies in patient monitoring and respiratory interventions. The podcast will feature discussions on anesthesia and brain monitoring, unplanned extubation in the NICU, routine intubation with video laryngoscopy, challenges in the NICU, the value of NIRS in clinical practice in the NICU, non-invasive and invasive ventilation in the NICU, and more.