Caring For Infants With Severe Chronic Lung Disease (Cld) - Five Year Experience Of A Multidisciplinary Care Program

Background: Despite advances in neonatal care, management of infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (sBPD) remains difficult. Objective: To describe the multidisciplinary care model and five-year outcomes of the Newborn and Infant Chronic Lung Disease (NeoCLD) Program at The Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia (CHOP). Methods/Results: The CHOP NeoCLD program was established in 2010 to improve the care of infants with extremely severe BPD. Given the chronic and multi-system involvement nature of this disease, we took a complex care multidisciplinary …