<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2023/10-30/downstates-global-impact-nicu-treatments.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>10/30/2023 12:00:00 PM</pubDate><title>Downstate’s Global Impact Revolutionizes NICU Baby Treatments</title><sub-title/><description>Lawrence Fordjour, M.D., FAAP, clinical associate professor of Pediatrics and neonatologist, is first-author of a paper featured in the International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences. 
						
						The paper delves into a project at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (GARH) in Ghana, where NICU nurses were trained on bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP). This simple, cost-efficient, noninvasive respiratory support method is less technically demanding than endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. </description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="https://www.downstate.edu/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2023/10-30/_images/fordjour-baby-mother-photo.png" alt="Baby Photo"/></image><categories/></item>