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January 2021 NEONATOLOGY Peer Reviewed Research, News and Information TODAY in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine Volume 16 / Issue 1 | January 2021 Dive, Survive or Thrive: Interpreting Umbilical Cord Blood Gases: A Prescription for Post-Traumatic Thriving Cord Occlusion with Terminal Fetal Bradycardia: Part II Randall Bell, PhD Jeffrey Pomerance, MD, MPH .............................................................................................................Page 3 .............................................................................................................Page 85 MiOra Means "My light" Abstracts from the California Association of Neonatologists Özlem Rafaela Equils, MD, FAAP Cool Topics in Neonatology 26th Annual Conference .............................................................................................................Page 11 John Cleary, MD Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Update – Raising our Voices .............................................................................................................Page 91 Lily J. Lou, MD, FAAP Medical News, Products & Information .............................................................................................................Page 17 Compiled and Reviewed by Mitchell Goldstein, MD Editor in Chief Data types and different ways to store data in R .............................................................................................................Page 128 Fu-Sheng Chou, MD, PhD Genetics Corner: .............................................................................................................Page 22 Trichothiodystrophy 1 Causes Neutropenia in an Infant Fellow Column: with Congenital ichthyosis and Brittle Hair Late-Onset GBS Lower Extremity Cellulitis in Premature Robin Dawn Clark, MD and Subhadra Ramaanthan, MSc, MS Neonate with a GBS Negative Mother with Alternative Modes .............................................................................................................Page 143 of Transmission: A Case Report White Privilege & Why NICUs Should Care Bansari Patel, OSM, Lakshan Fonseka, OSM, Nasser Hashem, OSM, Deb Discenza Kersti Bellardi, OSM, Mitchell Goldstein, MD .............................................................................................................Page 149 .............................................................................................................Page 29 Clinical Pearl: The Important Role of Building Provider-Patient Trust in COVID-19 in the Pregnant Women Close to Home Improving Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes Joseph R. Hageman, MD, Mitchell Goldstein, MD Barb Himes, IBCLC .............................................................................................................Page 157 ...................................................................................................................Page 35 Letters to the Editor: “The Iowa Way” Is Monitoring More Cost Effective? Have We Got This All Wrong? Mitchell Goldstein, MD responds to Will KIng Rob Graham, R.R.T./N.R.C.P. .................................................................................................................Page 163 .............................................................................................................Page 41 Erratum National Perinatal Association Annual Conference 2020 – .............................................................................................................Page 164 Multidisciplinary Care in the 4th Trimester Academic True Open Model (ATOM) Viveka Prakash-Zawisza, MD, Jerry Ballas, MD, MPH .............................................................................................................Page 165 ...................................................................................................................Page 45 Upcoming Meetings Medical Legal Forum: A Timely Scenario (Fall 1985) .............................................................................................................Page 168 Gilbert Martin, MD Subscriptions and Contact Information ...................................................................................................................Page 53 .............................................................................................................Page 168 New Nutrition Standards Should Shape Americans’ Editorial Board Food and Beverage Choices .............................................................................................................Page 171 Michelle Winokur, DrPH and the AfPA Governmental Affairs Team Neonatology Today: Policy on Animal and Human Research ...................................................................................................................Page 59 .............................................................................................................Page 173 The 2021 iCAN Advocacy and Research Summit Neonatology Today: Instructions for Manuscript Submission Amy Ohmer .............................................................................................................Page 173 ...................................................................................................................Page 64 Neonatology and the Arts - Herbert Vasquez, MD High Altitude Climbing, High Reliability, COVID-19, .............................................................................................................Page 173 and the Power of Observation Peonies - Paula White, MD Daved van Stralen, MD, FAAP, Thomas A. 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