Monthly Archives: March 2014

S’il suffisait d’aimer

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

Sainte Justine is a unique hospital, we are a ‘full-service’ children’s hospital with an integrated maternity service. The obstetricians, of course, think that we are a maternity hospital with a children’s hospital tacked on! We have a fund-raiser at the … Continue reading →

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Please, please, not ABBA!

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

I think whoever designed this study should be subjected to prolonged and unrelenting auditory torture. the only thing worse than ABBA that I can think of would have been Rolf Harris’s 2 little boys; so that is the sentence I … Continue reading →

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Sticking needles into babies doesn’t reduce colic. Who’d have thought…

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

More nonsense, this time acupuncture for babies! Ninety babies were randomized in a multicenter trial of sticking needles into non-existent meridians to channel imaginary Qi energy. Unfortunately the condition they were investigating, infantile colic, causes a lot of real distress … Continue reading →

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Waving your hands around is not analgesic! Who’d have thought…

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

Really, who’d have thought it was worth testing. I have a lot of respect for several of the authors of this trial, but I can’t for the life of me understand why they did this study. Celeste Johnston, Marsha Campbell-Yeo, … Continue reading →

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Article now listed on PubMed

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

The commentary that a large group of us wrote in reply to the CPS statement on extreme prematurity is now listed on PubMed. (Janvier A, Barrington KJ,  et al: CPS position statement for prenatal counselling before a premature birth: Simple … Continue reading →

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Premature babies, should the school know?

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

I saw a link to this article, a paediatrician from Glasgow thinks that because premature babies have more problems as they grow up than children who are born at term, the schools should have the gestational age on their entry … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Intensive Care Units work!

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

The first Epicure study had relatively poor survival rates, especially for the more immature babies. Of course the data were regional data, including all babies born in the UK and Ireland, so they included babies born in places with very … Continue reading →

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Letter in Early Human Development

Posted on 17 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

Some of you might recall a report in Early Human Development that I strongly criticized on this blog. The title was ‘The effect of in-hospital developmental care on neonatal morbidity, growth and development of preterm Taiwanese infants: A randomized controlled … Continue reading →

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Screening for Hyperbilirubinemia

Posted on 14 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

When I was chair of the CPS Fetus and Newborn committee, we produced several position statements, one of which I was quite proud was written by myself and by Dr Sankaran from Saskatoon, it was a guideline for the screening … Continue reading →

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On the radio

Posted on 14 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

I was interviewed for the excellent Radio-Canada program on science, known as ‘les années lumières’ recently. The subject was about whether breast feeding is really best for babies. The reason for them doing the story was a recent publication by … Continue reading →

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