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3D Video Use in Laparoscopic Training

This study is recruiting CHLA staff/employees/trainees to participate in a study assessing the efficacy of different types of video in teaching a surgical skill to novices. Participants will complete a survey and a medical training task, watch a video, and then repeat the medical training task in 2 weeks.

Extubation failure in newborn infants

Validate the use of respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP) and esophageal manometry in diagnosing upper airway obstruction (UAO) in newborn infants.

HIGH DOSE ERYTHROPOIETIN FOR ASPHYXIA AND ENCEPHALOPATHY (HEAL)

1) To determine if 5 doses of Epo (Erythropoietin) 1000 U/kg (birth weight) intravenous (IV) reduces the rate of death or neurodevelopmental impairment (mild, moderate, or severe) at 24 months of age. 

2) To assess safety of Epo. 

3) To determine whether Epo decreases the severity of HIE-induced brain injury as evidenced by early MRI and plasma biomarkers of brain injury.