Consultant Neonatologist @StNicu Interested in Preterm stabilisation, Neonatal Neurology and Nutrition. love to do QIP and teaching! All views are my own!
Joined March 2013
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
16 Oct 2025
Current antibiotic and prophylactic antifungal drug policies of UK NICUs: a national survey
👉academic.oup.com/jacamr/arti…
@uniofeastanglia @UeaMed @NNUHResearch @NICUNNUH1 @StNicu
@StGeorges_VI @neo_twiter
#OpenAccess
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
27 Sep 2024
The UK MUM (Maternity Unit Marvels) Awards are BACK! 🙌
If your maternity or neonatal team went above and beyond to support you and/or your baby before, during or after your little one’s birth, then nominate them for a MUM award 👉 babylifeline.org.uk/uk-mum-a…
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11 Sep 2024
Proud to be part of #BAPM2024 conference sharing our work on various projects @ASPH_maternity @ASPHFT @LittleRooFund @StNicu
11 Sep 2024
Preterm immunisations- Are they as scary as we think?
The Importance of timely immunisations.
@StNicu
@DocNila
@BAPM_Official
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1 May 2024
Exciting opportunity to come and work as a consultant in the lead medical NICU for Surrey @StNicu @ASPHFT @ASPH_maternity. @LittleRooFund @KssOdn #substantive post, #leafy Surrey #supportiveteam ! jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadv…
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Vitamin K: missed at peril
Coroner's reports have highlighted recent cases of missed prophylaxis
Case for extra supplementation to prevent deficiency in breastfed preterm infants
@drpaulclarke, @DocNila, @vimalvasu
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
7 Mar 2024
Does extremely early expression of colostrum after very preterm birth improve mother’s own milk quantity? Answer is YES! So get your perinatal systems geared to support expressing within 6hrs @peri_prem @BAPM_Official fn.bmj.com/content/early/202…
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4 Mar 2024
Vit K - a dose at birth isn’t enough for all! Ongoing supplementation at discharge for high risk preterm infants starting now in @StNicu @ASPH_maternity #NeoEBM #preterm @LittRooFund
3 Mar 2024
Vitamin K is the forgotten vitamin.
Our letter published @ADC_BMJ
👉bit.ly/3IkaqpO
We call @NICEComms to review need for wider practice change to prevent these rare but real and potentially preventable deaths from #VitaminK deficiency bleeding in early infancy.
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4 Nov 2023
Well done Paul! Such a useful study providing valuable information needed to plan future antiseptic trials! @NNUHResearch
31 Oct 2023
Our ARCTIC trial is published at last.
It’s been a very long expedition but we got there in the end!
Delighted to be published @ADC_FN
The v long acknowledgment section reflects the support of so many whose help was crucial to the success of our #antiseptic trial.
@NIHRCRNeoe
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
28 Jun 2023
One week to go until the #nhsbigtea - Still time to sign up nhsbigtea.co.uk/find?charity…
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
2 Jun 2023
@StNicu are looking to recruit new members to join team ANNP, trainees to senior posts, see NHS jobs
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
24 May 2023
WE DID IT!! 🎉🎉🎉 We are thrilled that the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill reached royal assent today! Around 60,000 parents annually will benefit from up to 12 weeks’ leave and pay when their babies are born needing neonatal care.
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
11 May 2023
Ever wondered how long it takes to reformat papers for journal submissions?
We did, and decided to write about it! We calculated time and money lost, interviewed journal editors and researchers, and developed some new guideline propositions.
Read here: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.co…
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
29 Mar 2023
Survival rates of 22-weekers who are actively resuscitated in various countries. Recent survival rate at our NICU was 83% and has dramatically improved over the past 10 years.
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28 Mar 2023
How amazing @BAPM_Official @peri_prem. An amazing story and brilliant care by a great team @doc_emery @ccroehr @DXE1
27 Mar 2023
Just a little something on the news today about our wonderful NICU and a set of brave and strong preterm record setting triplets and a wonderful set of parents @NorthBristolNHS @DXE1 @rebeccalemin @MariaKaneNHS @ccroehr @CharleyMaher @KydenPayne99 @bapm @itvnews
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
19 Mar 2023
Surviving 22 0 twins.
New #GuinnessRecord - most premature and lightest surviving twins ever born.
Happy first birthday!
Congratulations to Prof Prakash Shah and all medical & nursing colleagues @SinaiHealth on this remarkable achievement.
@22matters
ncregister.com/blog/guinness…
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
24 Feb 2023
Careful with your platelets…
transfusing at higher thresholds may do more harm than good also in the long term in preterm infants.
2 year outcomes after Planet-2 RCT now published #OpenAccess @ADC_FN
@EBNEO @NHSBT @BritSocHaem @SHOTHV1 @BAPM_Official
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
27 Jan 2023
Great opportunity! @NeoTRIPs1 @PramNetwork @ScotNeoPOCUS @pocus_neonatal @CHEERI2022 @GOSH_PGME @WRENpaeds @Paedsoftlanding
27 Jan 2023
A unique research opportunity: 2-year clinical research fellow post in neonatal pulmonary hypertension – based at Liverpool Women’s Hospital
Research and echocardiography, supervised by @nvs1965 and I
Deadline 6th February
nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Merseysid…
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
11 Dec 2022
1/ This is a *really* important thread🧵 re current pensions consultation. I need you to take time to read it properly & watch the 2 videos / modelling done with @gdcuk
They are trying to steal your pension, whilst pretending they are fixing a problem. Read, 👀 2 videos & RT
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Vennila Ponnusamy retweeted
15 Dec 2022
Taking comfort in family & friends can help carers during difficult times. In this short clip Raja Badrakalimuthu, a Dementia Carers Count Trustee, reads a passage from his book recounting an 8 year old boy's 1st Christmas without his dad living at home
#dailymotivation #december
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