Monthly Archives: April 2016

Death of a twin, further resources.

Posted on 12 April 2016 by Keith Barrington

I recently wrote about the work from Newcastle in the UK about supporting parents who lose one of a pair of twins during the perinatal period. Nick Embleton wrote a comment about that post noting that they now have put … Continue reading →

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Follow up of the PREMILOC post

Posted on 12 April 2016 by Keith Barrington

Further to my post about the PREMILOC trial of routine hydrocortisone supplementation in extremely preterm infants, I received an email response from Olivier Baud, who was generally in agreement with my comments, but doubts the validity of adding the data … Continue reading →

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Inhaled steroids to prevent BPD, another trial.

Posted on 12 April 2016 by Keith Barrington

This time from Japan, Nakamura T, et al. Early inhaled steroid use in extremely low birthweight infants: a randomised controlled trial. Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 2016. 211 babies with a birth weight less than 1000 … Continue reading →

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Late surfactant supplementation

Posted on 8 April 2016 by Keith Barrington

After the initial phase of surfactant deficiency of the very preterm infant, inhibition and destruction of surfactant are common, the inflammation of the oxygen exposed preterm lung is probably important in the pathophysiology of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and the adverse effects … Continue reading →

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Death of a twin

Posted on 6 April 2016 by Keith Barrington

Twins are much more likely to end up in the care of the NICU than singletons, and much more likely to be extremely preterm, and as a result the phenomenon of having one of twins die, while the other remains … Continue reading →

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