Yearly Archives: 2014

Neonatal Updates

Posted on 13 August 2014 by Keith Barrington

Garel C, Moutard ML. Main congenital cerebral anomalies: how prenatal imaging aids counseling. Fetal diagnosis and therapy. 2014;35(4):229-39. An excellent review article that can assist in prenatal counselling if you have a mother whose fetus has a CNS anomaly. Baylis R, … Continue reading →

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Should we all be wearing gloves? Every time we touch a baby?

Posted on 12 August 2014 by Keith Barrington

Two new articles over the summer suggest that the answer to that question may well be yes. The first is the best quality of the studies, an RCT in a single center in the USA. Kaufman DA, Blackman A, Conaway MR, Sinkin … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Etiquette

Posted on 6 August 2014 by Keith Barrington

In 2008 a Dr Michael Kahn published an article in the Prestigious New England Journal (which I abbreviate to PNEJM, for any new readers). It was entitled ‘etiquette-based medicine’. He made the introductory comment that although patients deserve compassionate doctors, … Continue reading →

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Back in the Saddle

Posted on 6 August 2014 by Keith Barrington

I have had a very relaxing break, a long vacation with no blogging, indeed very intermittent internet access, and I did not even keep up with my scanning of the neonatal lierature. But now back to full speed, or at … Continue reading →

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Sniffing out lung injury

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Keith Barrington

Apparently exhaled breath analysis can be used to detect a number of pulmonary and systemic diseases. As a medical student I was taught  about some of the classical clinical signs of certain diseases (such as diabetic ketoacidosis) which make the … Continue reading →

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Non-invasive HiFi? Much more info needed.

Posted on 26 June 2014 by Keith Barrington

This is an interesting idea, I believe that initially it was thought that bubble CPAP might deliver some high frequency pressure oscillations to the lungs, as the bubbling in the circuit causes some small amplitude variations in the pressure in … Continue reading →

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Probiotics work in Germany also

Posted on 23 June 2014 by Keith Barrington

A new study from the German Neonatal Network Database compares the incidence of NEC between centers that used probiotics, centers that did not use probiotics, and centers that changed their practice part way through the data collection period from being … Continue reading →

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The voice of parents

Posted on 21 June 2014 by Keith Barrington

Kudos to Acta Paediatrica, for an article by a group of parents who were all faced with antenatal counseling in a situation of high risk for extremely preterm delivery. (Staub K, Baardsnes J, Hébert N, Hébert M, Newell S, Pearce … Continue reading →

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A philosopher and a theologian debate neonatology; confusion results

Posted on 13 June 2014 by Keith Barrington

I came across this article from a philosopher who apparently does bioethics, the title is, ‘what should we do about severely impaired newborns?’ The article is a report (by the philosopher) of a debate at the American Association of Thoracic … Continue reading →

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Doing research using Youtube

Posted on 12 June 2014 by Keith Barrington

When my kids went to have their immunizations we took some sucrose solution with us to the hospital (don’t ask me how we came to have sucrose solution, its a secret) and were ready to either have the immunizations done … Continue reading →

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