Research Collaboration and Educational tour through China #3 in Guangzhou and Foshan 🇨🇳🍼

Guangzhou and Foshan – advancing neonatal research, nutrition, and international collaboration

Another exciting day of this educational and research tour through China included visits to three hospitals across Guangzhou and Foshan, combining neonatal research discussions, NICU tours, and a neonatal nutrition conference.

🔬 Building international neonatal research collaboration

We started the day with an important research discussion focused on the development of what may become the largest neonatal clinical trial ever conducted:

RESAIR-3

This ambitious international trial plans to enrol approximately:

👶 245,000 term and late-preterm infants

The study will compare:

• 21% oxygen versus 100% oxygen at birth during neonatal resuscitation.

The discussion focused on:

• International collaboration

• Trial feasibility

• Site participation

• Neonatal resuscitation practices

• Data harmonization across countries

Large collaborative studies such as RESAIR-3 are essential to answering some of the most important unanswered questions in neonatal resuscitation.

🏥 NICU visits in Guangzhou

Following the research discussions, we visited two sites of the:

Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center

The scale and clinical activity of these NICUs were truly impressive:

• The first site included a 120-bed NICU

• The second site included a 99-bed NICU

The visits provided an excellent opportunity to discuss:

• Premature infant care

• Respiratory support

• Delivery room stabilization

• Monitoring strategies

• Clinical workflows and neonatal intensive care systems

The dedication of the teams and the scale of neonatal care being delivered were remarkable.

🍼 Nutrition conference in Foshan

The day concluded in Foshan at the:

Foshan Chancheng Medical Center

for a neonatal nutrition conference focused on improving outcomes for newborn and premature infants.

Topics included:

• Early nutrition in preterm infants

• Parental Nutrition

• Human milk and fortification

• Growth and development

• Long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes

• Current nutritional practices and challenges

Nutrition remains one of the key pillars of neonatal intensive care and plays a critical role in:

• Brain development

• Lung health

• Neuroprotection

• Long-term outcomes

🌍 Strengthening global neonatal partnerships

This visit highlighted the importance of combining:

• Clinical care

• Research collaboration

• Education

• Nutrition

• International networking

to improve outcomes for vulnerable newborn infants worldwide.

A special thank you to: Prof. Zhang for the invitation and warm hospitality throughout the visits to Guangzhou and Foshan.

🤝 Looking ahead

The continued collaboration between teams in China and international neonatal researchers is creating exciting opportunities for:

• Multicenter clinical trials

• Shared education

• Simulation training

• Neonatal nutrition research

• Delivery room innovation

We look forward to continuing these collaborations and advancing neonatal care together across borders.