Care of Periviable Infants

Survival for periviable infants is improving. Neonatal intensive care specialist, Jonathan Klein, MD, shares his expertise and strategies to care for these extremely premature infants at 22–24 weeks’ estimated gestational age. Multidisciplinary teamwork and standardization of practice are essential strategies to allow extremely preterm infants the potential to survive and thrive. Join Dr. Klein’s examination of the survival, morbidity, and 2-year outcomes for periviable infants at a center with a proactive philosophical approach, as well as his review of NICU practice improvements, including the critical use of antenatal corticosteroids prior to 24 weeks.

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  Jonathan M. Klein, MD

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  Jonathan M. Klein, MD, is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa and staff neonatologist and medical director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. He also serves as medical director of the NICU’s Nurse Practitioner Program at the hospital.

  Dr. Klein received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas at the University of Texas SW Medical Center and a fellowship in neonatology at Tufts University in Boston. 

  Dr. Klein’s clinical and research interests include high-frequency ventilation, nitric oxide therapy, surfactant replacement therapy, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, sex-specific differences in lung development, and the effects of epidermal growth factor on lung development.

  Dr. Klein is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and book chapters and has been an invited speaker at a number of regional, national and international conferences. He serves on the editorial board of Frontiers in Neonatology and is a reviewer for a number of prestigious medical journals and other publications.

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  Jonathan M. Klein, MD

  Professor of Pediatrics
  Medical Director NICU
  Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
  University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
  Iowa City, Iowa