Inpatient skin-to-skin care in infants with congenital kidney failure: a single-center retrospective cohort study - PubMed Inpatient skin-to-skin care in infants with congenital kidney failure: a single-center retrospective cohort study

2. Skin to skin care is impt for neonatal neurodevelopment & parental bonding. NICUs have protocols to provide them safely in babies w/ ET tubes, central lines.
Melissa Zhou shows that babies on dialysis do not get skin to skin care like other neonates do. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41629685/

Graphical abstract showing that catch up growth is limited despite good nutrition

Survival is improving for Neonates with kidney failure. With that it is becoming important to focus on things beyond #dialysis. Sharing 2 papers from Stanford PedNeph fellows:
1. Sam Krieger shows that infants on RRT do not show catch up growth on current nutritional recommendations
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Great talk from @jonellison.bsky.social today on the fantastic patient-centered, patient-supported, and patient-informed research on kidney stone care from PKIDS and beyond. Was happy that kidney injury made the top 10 list for future focus. 😊 🫘 💦 🪨

Pediatric nephrology is such an amazing field in which you learn super cool physiology and provide comprehensive care to awesome kids and their families. Match data is disheartening. Lots happening to address the workforce issues. We will need support from admin and beyond. 🫘🧂💦

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First Bluesky post…so much pressure! Will just say I am loving this community of kidney-centric folks (or, as my husband calls us, NephroNerds). Fun to read all of your profiles. Excited to be here! 🫘💦🧂❤️