🏖️ [COOL TOPICS] - How Should We Feed the Most Immature Babies in Our NICUs? (ft. Dr. Tarah Colaizy)

Name: 🏖️ [COOL TOPICS] - How Should We Feed the Most Immature Babies in Our NICUs? (ft. Dr. Tarah Colaizy)
Uploaded: 2026-03-20T01:45:09+00:00
Duration: 15 min 41 s
Channel: The Incubator Channel
Description: Dr Tarah Colaizy (University of Iowa) discusses the Iowa approach to individualised, principle-driven nutrition for periviable infants, explaining why rigid feeding protocols can backfire in the most immature babies. She also describes her unit's glycerin protocol for meconium obstruction of prematurity, low-volume laboratory monitoring and the case for patient, gradual enteral feed advancement.

The Incubator Channel · 20 Mar 2026 · 16 min

Summary

Dr Tarah Colaizy (University of Iowa) discusses the Iowa approach to individualised, principle-driven nutrition for periviable infants, explaining why rigid feeding protocols can backfire in the most immature babies. She also describes her unit's glycerin protocol for meconium obstruction of prematurity, low-volume laboratory monitoring and the case for patient, gradual enteral feed advancement.

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