Monthly Archives: March 2016

TPN toxic?

Posted on 28 March 2016 by Keith Barrington

Humans, after they are born, are supposed to receive their nutrition via the gut. Before that of course, they receive a continuous infusion of nutrition via the umbilical vein. We are far from having an intravenous nutrition mixture for sick … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates

Posted on 15 March 2016 by Keith Barrington

Sehgal A, et al. Systemic arterial stiffness in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: potential cause of systemic hypertension. J Perinatol. 2016. Elevated systemic pressures are common in infants with moderate or severe BPD; why? Dr Sehgal and his colleagues performed vascular ultrasound … Continue reading →

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Does erythropoietin improve preterm babies development?

Posted on 15 March 2016 by Keith Barrington

Ohls RK, et al. Preschool Assessment of Preterm Infants Treated With Darbepoetin and Erythropoietin. Pediatrics. 2016;137(3):1-9. Robin Ohls has been working on Erythropoietin, and its longer acting analogue darbepoietin, for many years now. As well as demonstrating that it stimulates … Continue reading →

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Early low dose systemic hydrocortisone to prevent death or chronic lung disease? Hold on a bit.

Posted on 11 March 2016 by Keith Barrington

An important high quality trial has just been published, it has taken me a bit longer than usual to process the new info. Among other reasons a nice review was posted on the “other neonatal blog“, but I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Lacuna trial now in print

Posted on 10 March 2016 by Keith Barrington

Now available on-line the pilot trial of lactoferrin prophylaxis that I performed at Sainte Justine. (Barrington KJ, Assaad M-A, Janvier A. The Lacuna Trial: a double-blind randomized controlled pilot trial of lactoferrin supplementation in the very preterm infant. J Perinatol. … Continue reading →

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Videolaryngoscopy to teach intubation

Posted on 10 March 2016 by Keith Barrington

Two recent randomized trials, one from our group, and another one from Melbourne have evaluate the role of the videolaryngoscope (VL) in teaching trainees in neonatology to perform endotracheal intubations. The two trials are structured differently and tell us different … Continue reading →

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