FIRST AID COURSE 🩹
If you’re a parent, babysitter, teacher, school nurse, coach, or caregiver, this course gives you the skills to keep kids safe in emergencies & everyday situations.
⭐ Pediatric First Aid & Safety Training (Online!) from the AAP
Register at: lnkd.in/g_ce3DKt
“Since 1998, independent researchers have conducted more than 40 high-quality studies involving over 5.6 million people. The conclusion is clear and unambiguous: There’s no link between vaccines and autism." -Dr. Susan Kressly, AAP President on recent changes to the CDC's website
For decades, scientists have studied the potential causes of autism, and have repeatedly found no credible link between childhood vaccines and autism. Read our full fact-check: www.aap.org/en/news-room...
Very excited about this.
Ugh.
Preventable.
I was vaccinated as a child and again as an adult because my titers were low -- tested as part of requirements for being on staff at a hospital. I didn't question the extra vaccine for myself.
My kids were vaccinated per the recommended schedule.
Measles is a risk we can minimize.
Things pediatricians are scared of:
Grapes
Hot dogs
Lawn mowers
Unmounted TVs
Babies on laps in cars
Riders without helmets
Ungated pools
Crib bumpers
Trampolines
Hot tubs
Guns
Things pediatricians are not scared of:
Any/all the vaccines
The thing about destroying NIH is NIH’s scale in medical research just dwarfs everyone else.
For ex, in 2023 the American Cancer Society gave out $64.5 million worth of grants. Sounds big, right?
But NIH’s budget was $49 billion. With a B.
Kill NIH and the floor drops out of US science.
This training complements the Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (#PEPP) program, providing tools to assess & respond to critical neonatal situations wherever they happen!
www.aap.org/en/pedialink...
Taking NRP Beyond the Delivery Room!
The AAP is excited to introduce the Neonatal Education for Prehospital Professionals e-Learning course, in Spring 2025!
This course is designed to help prehospital professionals build confidence and expertise in managing neonatal emergencies in the field. 🍼🚑
Trump is cutting "indirect costs" for NIH grants. It sounds benign. It's not. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
In honor of ❤️Month, let’s talk aboutt the new #NRP Cardiac Course, due Spring 2025!
This online course is designed to equip you with knowledge & skills to care for newborns w/congenital cardiac anomalies at delivery.
💡Stay tuned as we support your expertise in providing the best care for newborns.
Feels like a good time for a little reminder: Countries aren't supposed to be run like businesses. Countries are supposed to spend money to support and serve their people. This means spending to support those living below the poverty line, the disabled and historically 1/
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An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.
With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵
Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7
Exciting updates from the American Academy of Pediatrics Neonatal Resuscitation Program
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
Well, I did it.
I turned the big 5-0. #Vintage1975
Very blessed to be surrounded by family & doing work that inspires me.
If you want to donate to my fundraiser to support our work at the American Academy of Pediatrics, click here:
aapnational.donorsupport.co/-/NRYLXPRV?m...
If you are so inclined to donate on behalf of my big 5-0 and towards the mission of the AAP, check out my fundraising link here:
aapnational.donorsupport.co/-/NRYLXPRV?m...
FIN
Safe sleep?
Resuscitation education?
PREP for board review?
HealthyChildren.org?
Disaster relief for Haiti?
Injury prevention?
Vaccine advocacy?
Advocacy for mental health, anti-vaping and gun control?
The AAP has it covered.
9/n
The AAP does all this and more!
The AAP has been around for 95 years, doing its advocacy, policy and education thing, all to better the lives and outcomes for kids, their families and the health professionals who care for them.
8/n
Every single call to the delivery room where we implemented the Neonatal Resuscitation Program® (#NRP) algorithm:
www.aap.org/en/pedialink...
7/n
Treatment of a baby to a syphilis positive mother (something that I always look up in the Red Book): publications.aap.org/redbook (this is a member benefit!)
6/n
Updated guidance on critical congenital heart disease screening from December 2024:
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
(4/n)
I finished a week on service with them. It is always great to be in the trenches and reminded of how much I love taking care of babies, as well as how the work of the AAP impacts how we care for those babies.
Here are some examples from just the last few days: (3/n)
I hope to convince you to donate in any amount to my link here.
aapnational.donorsupport.co/-/NRYLXPRV?m...
How did I ring in the New Year?
I brought in 2025 on call on behalf of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, rounding with this stellar team. (Posted with their permission). (2/n)
Happy New Year.
2025 is a big year because I am turning the Big 5-0. And I am doing a big birthday fundraiser.
In honor of this milestone birthday, I am fundraising on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics (#AAP), an organization whose mission is to improve outcomes for children. (1/n)