Yearly Archives: 2012

Pain relief during retinopathy screening, nothing works very well.

Posted on 7 May 2012 by Keith Barrington

Mandel R, Ali N, Chen J, Galic IJ, Levesque L: Nitrous oxide analgesia during retinopathy screening: a randomised controlled trial. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2012, 97(2):F83-87. http://fn.bmj.com/content/97/2/F83 My colleagues and friends Romain Mandel and Nabeel Ali performed a … Continue reading →

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Probiotics to Prevent NEC: Why aren’t we saving babies yet?

Posted on 5 May 2012 by Keith Barrington

The latest systematic review of Probiotics to Prevent NEC in Preterm infants Wang Q, Dong J, Zhu Y: Probiotic supplement reduces risk of necrotizing enterocolitis and mortality in preterm very low-birth-weight infants: an updated meta-analysis of 20 randomized, controlled trials. J … Continue reading →

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Can we study Hypotension in Extremely Preterm Infants?

Posted on 5 May 2012 by Keith Barrington

Dr Beau Batton and colleagues from the NICHD network have just published a paper detailing their attempt, and failure, to design a trial of early hypotension treatment. The design looks fine on paper, but when they tried to do the trial there … Continue reading →

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Hello Newborn World!

Posted on 5 May 2012 by Keith Barrington

For many years I have been screening a number of websites, contents pages of pediatrics and general journals, and other services to add references to my personal database, and also to send out reading lists to fellows, nurse practitioners and … Continue reading →

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