Monthly Archives: August 2016

A new publication

Posted on 25 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

Janvier A, Farlow B, Barrington KJ. Parental hopes, interventions, and survival of neonates with trisomy 13 and trisomy 18. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2016: This new article draws on the results of the on-line survey that … Continue reading →

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Preterm babies have fixed dilated pupils

Posted on 25 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

There is a reason we don’t perform pupillary reactions to light in preterm babies, and that is that they don’t react. They also tend to be large. This post is in response to my trying to find out what had … Continue reading →

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Hey, doctor, leave those guts alone!

Posted on 24 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

Intestinal function is often sluggish after preterm delivery. Establishing early enteral nutrition, the goal of all of us, is interrupted often by repeated regurgitation, or large residuals (if you measure them) or abdominal distension. There are also reported correlations between … Continue reading →

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We found more bad things, that must be a good thing

Posted on 22 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

Frequent readers of this blog will know that I have been critical of the promotion of pre-discharge MRI as a universal screening standard for very preterm babies. The positive predictive value of most findings on MRI at term-equivalent age is … Continue reading →

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Long term survival in trisomy 13 and 18

Posted on 19 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

After my previous post on this topic, John Lantos wrote a comment pointing out this recent publication, Nelson KE, et al. Survival and Surgical Interventions for Children With Trisomy 13 and 18. JAMA. 2016;316(4):420-8. It is a large regional cohort, identified from … Continue reading →

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Sustained inflation during neonatal resuscitation? Not so fast…

Posted on 18 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

A sustained inflation at birth of an asphyxiated lamb which lasts 30 seconds leads to much more rapid restoration of heart rate and blood pressure than either conventional ventilation or a series of shorter sustained inflations of 5 seconds each. … Continue reading →

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Brave New World

Posted on 17 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

As a teen (yes I can still remember that far back) one of my favourite books was “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, I haven’t reread it for many years now, but I would still recommend it (and I’m not … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates: Recent Nutritional Publications part 2.

Posted on 16 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

Breast Milk and how to use it Colacci M, et al. Growth and Development in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants After the Introduction of Exclusive Human Milk Feedings. American journal of perinatology. 2016(EFirst). This is a before and after study … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates: Recent Nutritional Publications part 1.

Posted on 16 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

As there is no way I can catch up after the break, I will post a few ‘neonatal Updates’ to point my readers to things I found interesting over the last couple of months, this first group is all about … Continue reading →

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Early neonatal outcomes in trisomy 13 and 18

Posted on 15 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

One of the things that has changed greatly over the years, in my practice and in medical practice in general, is the approach to some congenital anomalies, particularly to serious chromosomal anomalies. Trisomy 13 and 18 specifically have seen an … Continue reading →

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