Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program

Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Interdisciplinary: Severe (BIT:S) Team

A program established to treat and follow our patients with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

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Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Interdisciplinary: Severe (BIT:S) Team

A program established to treat and follow our patients with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

In 2010, the NICU at Women & Infants Hospital established a program to treat and follow our patients with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia, known as BIT:S (Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Interdisciplinary Team: Severe).  

The BIT:S program has seen many successes. These successes have driven us to continually meet the needs of our vulnerable babies with BPD. The program is headed by Dr. Barbara Stonestreet, Dr. Martin Keszler, neonatologists, and three Hasbro Children's Hospital physicians, Dr. Karen Daigle - pediatric pulmonologist, Dr. James Ziegler - pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Robin McKinney - pediatric intensivist.

The following poster keeps the healthcare team up-to-date on the BIT:S program.

BIT:S Consults in the NICU

National BPD Collaborative Membership

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Our NICU at Women & Infants Hospital is a member of the national BPD Collaborative. The Collaborative "is comprised of institutions with multidisciplinary teams dedicated to optimizing outcomes of infants and children with severe BPD. We support the concept of BPD prevention in preterm infants." The BPD Collaborative includes 12 institutions who "share data, develop and implement quality improvement initiatives, foster research protocols to address the most pressing gaps in knowledge."  

The following is a notable publication from our contributions of data to the BPD Collaborative:

Interdisciplinary Care of Children with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Abman SH, Collaco JM, Shepherd EG, Keszler M, Cuevas-Guaman M, Welty SE, Tr,uog WE, McGrath-Morrow SA, Moore PE, Rhein LM, Kirpalani H, Zhang H, Gratny LL, Lynch SK, Curtiss J, Stonestreet BS, McKinney RL Dysart KC, Gien J, Baker CD, Donohue PK, Austin E, Fike C, Nelin LD; Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Collaborative. Interdisciplinary Care of Children with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia. J Pediatr. 2017 Feb;181:12-28.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2016.10.082. Epub 2016 Nov 28. PMID: 27908648; PMCID: PMC5562402.