Monthly Archives: March 2013

Weekly Updates #27 or whatever… I’ll have to think of a new title for these posts…

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

Troger B, Muller T, Faust K, Bendiks M, Bohlmann MK, Thonnissen S, Herting E, Gopel W, Hartel C: Intrauterine Growth Restriction and the Innate Immune System in Preterm Infants of </=32 Weeks Gestation. Neonatology 2012, 103(3):199-204. Infants born with IUGR … Continue reading →

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To blindly go where no man….

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

Do we really need to blind research projects? And if so which parts of them? There is good empirical data that randomization must be masked, it is important that at the moment a patient is enrolled in a study the … Continue reading →

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Breast = best: past your eyes?

Posted on 20 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

The title is from one of those bad punny jokes that you never forget, about taking a bath in milk (pasteurized? No just up to my chin. Boom, boom). For the readers of this blog who are not native English … Continue reading →

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Extremely Preterm Infants, long term outcomes

Posted on 20 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

A new publication examines in great detail the cognitive outcomes of preterm babies less than 29 weeks gestation. The group from Melbourne, the Victorian Infant Collaborative, has published another study. (Hutchinson EA, De Luca CR, Doyle LW, et al: School-age … Continue reading →

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Prepuce wars

Posted on 19 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

A commentary written by a very long list of authors in response to the AAP’s position on circumcision. (Frisch M, Aigrain Y, Barauskas V, et al: Cultural Bias in the AAP’s 2012 Technical Report and Policy Statement on Male Circumcision. … Continue reading →

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Pacifiers (soothers, dummies) are friendly to babies

Posted on 19 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

The baby friendly initiative has been a force for improving breast-feeding rates, with many sensible parts to the program. Unfortunately some of it isn’t evidence based, such as the prohibition of what I will call soothers. I’m originally from England … Continue reading →

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Weekly Updates #0

Posted on 18 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

I know this is out of sequence, and my weekly updates aren’t in any way weekly, but I thought I’d direct anyone who is interested in keeping an eye on general medical issues to Richard Lehman’s journal review. He is … Continue reading →

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Not neonatology: Brian Cox again

Posted on 15 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

There is an amazing new series on BBC. Animated by Brian Cox again, called ‘Wonders of Life’. If you can figure out how to get access (within the UK it is available to licence holders, outside of the UK you … Continue reading →

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New link in side bar

Posted on 15 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

I don’t play with this blog’s appearance very much, I don’t have enough time to fiddle about. But I have just added a new link to the side-bar. A link to a very young foundation, the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation. … Continue reading →

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Weekly updates #26

Posted on 14 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

Richburg DA, Kim JH: Real-time bowel ultrasound to characterize intestinal motility in the preterm neonate. J Perinatol 2013. You can quantify intestinal motility with bed-side ultrasound. Neat. Now we need to know what to do with the information, sounds like … Continue reading →

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