Monthly Archives: June 2012

Long Term outcomes after Therapeutic Hypothermia for HIE

Posted on 13 June 2012 by Keith Barrington

Two new publications from multicenter trials of hypothermia as a treatment for post-asphyxial encephalopathy. The first from the NICHD network, and the whole body cooling study led by Seetha Shankaran. They examined the children and performed IQ testing at 6 to 7 … Continue reading →

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Desperately Seeking Problems with Premies

Posted on 9 June 2012 by Keith Barrington

I don’t know about you, but I am getting really irritated with people searching desperately to find problems with the long term outcomes of preterm infants. A new publication exemplifies this. A linked database study from Sweden has compared the … Continue reading →

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Head Ultrasound lesions and developmental progress: Predicting Long-Term Outcomes part 2

Posted on 7 June 2012 by Keith Barrington

Two recent articles that give much more information about the predictive capacity of head ultrasounds. Many articles about head ultrasounds and outcomes use the Papile classification. This classification was developed for simple classification of periventricular hemorrhage types as seen on … Continue reading →

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Predicting Long Term Outcomes, General Observations

Posted on 7 June 2012 by Keith Barrington

Just back to blogging from a few days at a very successful conference in Geneva, organized by Annie Janvier. At the conference I gave a presentation about prediction of long term outcomes in preterm infants. Some of the issues that … Continue reading →

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What does a low Bayley Score Mean? Predicting Long term outcomes: part 1.

Posted on 2 June 2012 by Keith Barrington

The title of the commentary listed below might put off some neonatologists, it looks like it has to do with studies in full term babies of their nutrition, when it really has to do with the meaning of the Bayley Scores. Colombo J, Carlson SE. … Continue reading →

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