Hello, and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jen Wolpa, and I'm thrilled to have back with me today. Dr. Jillian Isaac for another of our super popular key word episodes today.

We're going to talk about emergencies in the newborn, and we're going to divide it into two parts.

But I want to say just a couple quick things up front. One, remember, we now offer CME through ACRAC thanks to CMEFI, a fantastic company that provides it for us.

So if you want to get CME, just go to the website, click on the links in each episode. Now, Jillian, welcome back to the show.

Thank you. So today, like Dr. Wolpa said, we are talking about emergencies in the newborn. And I said parts one and two, because there are actually eight keywords that the ABA lists.

And so if I was just doing this in like a 15 to 20 minute smaller podcasts, I would probably do half and then the other half, but we're going to do it all in one go. And that's why I'm calling it parts one and part two.

I also want everyone to know that I'm being very brave. You probably noticed that I have steered clear of heat and cardiac until now. And we've talked enough on this program that you know that I do mostly obstetric anesthesia. So this is a little bit out of my comfort zone. And probably Dr. Wolpa also I haven't provided anesthetic care for a child.

And probably since residency 13 years ago. So it's good though. It was kind of fun to review this and go back over it. And I was surprised at how much I remember, but also how much has changed. So it's also, I think, kind of nice to see it from a perspective of someone who hasn't studied this in a while, going into a almost new denovo and trying to figure out like what's important and what's not important.

And the other thing I thought about when I was preparing for this is like, why does the ABA want me to know this, right? Like I'm not a pediatric anesthesiologist and a lot of us aren't going to be pediatric anesthesiologists, but my husband's in private practice.

And he's the only in house anesthesiologist and they actually have a NICU and they do occasionally do NICU cases. And so I think there are times when you need to know at least the basics, even if you had a stumble through at least getting things going.

And back when I was a resident before Johns Hopkins opened its new buildings all over ours used to be on the same level.

So I remember when I was a CA three having to start a case before the pediatric people could get in because peeds was home call.

And it was this neonate with necrotizing intercollitis and it was super challenging and I was scared out of my mind, but I had to do it. Right.

And so I think there are going to be times when you're going to be faced with these situations and you just really need to know the basics. But the upside of that is by knowing just a few key things on each of these topics.

You can answer almost everything correctly on both the written and oral exams. They don't expect you to be an expert in any of these.

But just knowing a few really high yield things is going to help you a ton on this test.

Awesome.

I agree. So yeah, and I'm with you 100% been a long time with peeds, but you know, there are things that that are important to know. And again, whether we like it or not, a lot of the stuff is obviously going to be on the test. So folks out there who are looking at taking their.

You know board board exams coming up. This is important stuff to know.

Yeah, and this is on the basic not on the basic. This is advanced. And it's if you're going to look at the ABA content outline. It's on page 37.

It's under pediatric anesthesia subsection H and it's entitled emergencies in the newborn and they have eight keywords in this category. Okay. So there's diaphragmatic hernia.

There's trachea, esophageal fistula and esophageal atrizia.

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