Augusto Zani
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We want to know when the baby has surgical neck, when we need to operate. An ultrasound scan can tell you a little bit more about. The bowel, bowel wall thickening, thinning, perfusion, peristalsis, what's inside the abdomen, what happens at the level of the peritoneum and the liver.
I think you need to be prepared to have some negative laparotomies. There will be some in which unfortunately, you think it's perforated, actually it's not, but definitely if there's like turbid-free fluid, there's something going on there.
Maybe it's not that popular, but the ultrasound really gives you a lot of more clues that the abdominal X-ray. Abdominal X-rays are highly specific, but very low sensitivity.
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Intestinal Rehab
In stable babies where approximately 10 cm of necrotic segment is removed for source control, they do not necessarily do poorly afterwards and there is long-term benefit
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Intestinal Rehab
Intermediate-risk ultrasound findings include increased bowel wall echogenicity, absent perfusion, portal venous gas, and bowel thinning and thickening
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Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Ultrasound can assess bowel wall thickening, thinning, perfusion, peristalsis, intra-abdominal contents, peritoneum, and liver
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Necrotizing Enterocolitis
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We still don't know what causes it for our surgeons, how do we really diagnose it? What's the right time to operate? Are there some babies that are too sick to be operated on? And then when we do an operation, which one, when do we restart feeds for these babies, which antibiotics, and for how long do we refeed the mucus fstu if you have one?
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Maybe it's not that popular, but the ultrasound really gives you a lot of more clues that the abdominal X-ray. Abdominal X-rays are highly specific, but very low sensitivity.
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Abdominal X-rays for NEC have high specificity but very low sensitivity, with studies showing sensitivity between 13 and 25%
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We want to know when the baby has surgical neck, when we need to operate. An ultrasound scan can tell you a little bit more about. The bowel, bowel wall thickening, thinning, perfusion, peristalsis, what's inside the abdomen, what happens at the level of the peritoneum and the liver.
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Ultrasound can assess bowel wall thickening, thinning, perfusion, peristalsis, intra-abdominal contents, peritoneum, and liver
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High-risk ultrasound findings for bowel perforation include pneumoperitoneum, focal fluid collections, and complex fluid
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Intermediate-risk ultrasound findings include increased bowel wall echogenicity, absent perfusion, portal venous gas, and bowel thinning and thickening
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The majority of surgeons would perform laparotomy rather than drain placement for perforated NEC
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In stable babies where approximately 10 cm of necrotic segment is removed for source control, they do not necessarily do poorly afterwards and there is long-term benefit
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You're in the middle of the operation, and this means that the baby is hemodynamically stable, and then you would then scrub and go to the computer and go for randomization. Now you can tell you that the fellows, when it was like an anastomosis, were like, oh my God, now we're doing this to 500 grammers, but they were the strongest believers when they saw how these babies progressed afterwards.
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I think you need to be prepared to have some negative laparotomies. There will be some in which unfortunately, you think it's perforated, actually it's not, but definitely if there's like turbid-free fluid, there's something going on there.
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Surgeons need to be prepared to have some negative laparotomies when clinical suspicion is high despite equivocal imaging
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We still don't know what causes it for our surgeons, how do we really diagnose it? What's the right time to operate? Are there some babies that are too sick to be operated on? And then when we do an operation, which one, when do we restart feeds for these babies, which antibiotics, and for how long do we refeed the mucus fstu if you have one?
Open
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Maybe it's not that popular, but the ultrasound really gives you a lot of more clues that the abdominal X-ray. Abdominal X-rays are highly specific, but very low sensitivity.
Open
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Abdominal X-rays for NEC have high specificity but very low sensitivity, with studies showing sensitivity between 13 and 25%
Open
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We want to know when the baby has surgical neck, when we need to operate. An ultrasound scan can tell you a little bit more about. The bowel, bowel wall thickening, thinning, perfusion, peristalsis, what's inside the abdomen, what happens at the level of the peritoneum and the liver.
Open
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Ultrasound can assess bowel wall thickening, thinning, perfusion, peristalsis, intra-abdominal contents, peritoneum, and liver
Open
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High-risk ultrasound findings for bowel perforation include pneumoperitoneum, focal fluid collections, and complex fluid
Open
Statement
Intermediate-risk ultrasound findings include increased bowel wall echogenicity, absent perfusion, portal venous gas, and bowel thinning and thickening
Open
Statement
The majority of surgeons would perform laparotomy rather than drain placement for perforated NEC
Open
Statement
In stable babies where approximately 10 cm of necrotic segment is removed for source control, they do not necessarily do poorly afterwards and there is long-term benefit
Open
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You're in the middle of the operation, and this means that the baby is hemodynamically stable, and then you would then scrub and go to the computer and go for randomization. Now you can tell you that the fellows, when it was like an anastomosis, were like, oh my God, now we're doing this to 500 grammers, but they were the strongest believers when they saw how these babies progressed afterwards.
Open
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Surgeons need to be prepared to have some negative laparotomies when clinical suspicion is high despite equivocal imaging
Open
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I think you need to be prepared to have some negative laparotomies. There will be some in which unfortunately, you think it's perforated, actually it's not, but definitely if there's like turbid-free fluid, there's something going on there.
Open
Augusto's statements about Necrotizing Enterocolitis 12 statements
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Update Course Rewind 2025: Updates in NEC Management
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We still don't know what causes it for our surgeons, how do we really diagnose it? What's the right time to operate? Are there some babies that are too sick to be operated on? And then when we do an operation, which one, when do we restart feeds for these babies, which antibiotics, and for how long do we refeed the mucus fstu if you have one?
Open
Quotation
Maybe it's not that popular, but the ultrasound really gives you a lot of more clues that the abdominal X-ray. Abdominal X-rays are highly specific, but very low sensitivity.
Open
Statement
Abdominal X-rays for NEC have high specificity but very low sensitivity, with studies showing sensitivity between 13 and 25%
Open
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We want to know when the baby has surgical neck, when we need to operate. An ultrasound scan can tell you a little bit more about. The bowel, bowel wall thickening, thinning, perfusion, peristalsis, what's inside the abdomen, what happens at the level of the peritoneum and the liver.
Open
Statement
Ultrasound can assess bowel wall thickening, thinning, perfusion, peristalsis, intra-abdominal contents, peritoneum, and liver
Open
Statement
High-risk ultrasound findings for bowel perforation include pneumoperitoneum, focal fluid collections, and complex fluid
Open
Statement
Intermediate-risk ultrasound findings include increased bowel wall echogenicity, absent perfusion, portal venous gas, and bowel thinning and thickening
Open
Statement
The majority of surgeons would perform laparotomy rather than drain placement for perforated NEC
Open
Statement
In stable babies where approximately 10 cm of necrotic segment is removed for source control, they do not necessarily do poorly afterwards and there is long-term benefit
Open
Quotation
You're in the middle of the operation, and this means that the baby is hemodynamically stable, and then you would then scrub and go to the computer and go for randomization. Now you can tell you that the fellows, when it was like an anastomosis, were like, oh my God, now we're doing this to 500 grammers, but they were the strongest believers when they saw how these babies progressed afterwards.
Open
Statement
Surgeons need to be prepared to have some negative laparotomies when clinical suspicion is high despite equivocal imaging
Open
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I think you need to be prepared to have some negative laparotomies. There will be some in which unfortunately, you think it's perforated, actually it's not, but definitely if there's like turbid-free fluid, there's something going on there.
Open