The Incubator India

In this episode of The Incubator India Podcast, host Akanksha Verma is joined by Dr. Kiran More, neonatologist, targeted neonatal echocardiography trainer, and founder of the Little Fun NICU chain, for a wide-ranging conversation on congenital heart disease in the NICU. Dr. Kiran draws on 22 years of experience across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Qatar to discuss what the cardiac newborn lo...

In this episode of The Incubator India Podcast, Dr. Akanksha Verma is joined by Dr. Kirti Naranje for a journal club focused on recent Indian neonatal research and clinical updates. The discussion covers three important studies from Indian NICUs: a landmark RCT showing that early BCG-OPV vaccination in sick, low birth weight infants significantly reduces infection-related mortality; a well-designe...

In this episode of The Incubator India Podcast, hosts Dr. Anita Singh and Dr. Akanksha Verma review six recent studies led by Indian researchers that address key challenges in neonatal care. The discussion begins with a randomized trial from SGPGI Lucknow comparing nasal DuoPAP with CPAP in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome. While DuoPAP was non-inferior to CPAP, it reduced the ne...

In this episode of Incubator India, Dr. Akanksha hosts Professor Dr. Shubha Phadke, a pioneer in medical genetics, to discuss the transformative role of Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) in neonatal care. The conversation covers the fundamentals of WES, its clinical applications, the importance of accurate phenotyping, and the utilization of genetic databases for effective diagnosis. Dr. Phadke emphasi...

In this third episode of The Incubator India Podcast , hosts Dr. Anita Singh and Dr. Akanksha Verma dive into some of the latest research and break it down for our community of neonatologists in India. From hypertension in preterm neonates to the role of probiotics in NEC prevention, they break down five important studies with direct application in clinical practice. They explore the urgent need f...

In the second episode of The Incubator India Podcast series, Dr. Akanksha Verma engages in a profound conversation with Surgeon Rear Admiral Professor Girish Gupta, a trailblazer in neonatology and early neonatal intervention. Currently leading the Department of Neonatology at Grafikira Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, Professor Gupta draws on his 37 years of distinguished service in the I...

In the inaugural episode of the Incubator India Podcast, hosts Dr. Anita Singh and Dr. Akanksha Verma, neonatologists from Northern India, launch an exciting new platform for discussing cutting-edge neonatal research. The hosts dive into five key studies, starting with a randomized controlled trial on ventilatory assistance before umbilical cord clamping in extremely preterm infants, which found n...