Monthly Archives: May 2018

The PAS-meeting App, revisited

Posted on 29 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

I received a comment on my previous post about this issue about the 2018 PAS meeting from the executive director of the meeting, Eileen Fenton. She told me that the permanent record of the abstracts is an issue they are … Continue reading →

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ECMO for ARDS

Posted on 28 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

Although this isn’t neonatal it is a great study with an unfortunate conclusion… There has long been controversy about the place of ECMO for adults with ARDS. To resolve this a French multicentre trial randomized adults who were very sick … Continue reading →

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At last, something men are better at than women!

Posted on 28 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

That is, giving blood for babies, at least maybe. The introduction to this new publication notes something that I was not aware of, that plasma donated by women is associated with a substantially greater frequency of transfusion related complications than … Continue reading →

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Placement of umbilical catheters

Posted on 18 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

This is not a very new article, but it still appears to be on-line only. I wrote the draft of this post a while ago then forgot about it, but I think it is a valuable publication. Lean WL, et … Continue reading →

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Integrating families more in their babies’ care is a good thing!

Posted on 18 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

Giving families a much greater role in the care of their infants is a really important advance and much of what Karel O’Brien and the team at Mount Sinai have done is what should be done in all our NICUs.  … Continue reading →

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Just needle it! #NeoEBM

Posted on 16 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

I didn’t post much about last year’s PAS (and I am not sure I will have the energy in future years either) there are often disappointments and surprises, abstrracts presented as platforms in important sessions that should not have been, … Continue reading →

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PAS 2018: the wrap-up.

Posted on 14 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

A general comment about these PAS 2018 blog posts. I think we should be very careful about changing practice based on an abstract. We should respect peer review, with all its limitations, and we should always consider new research in … Continue reading →

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PAS 2018 No7: Protecting tiny noses

Posted on 14 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

#NeoEBM My blog posts are automatically tweeted. A group of twitterers got together at PAS and suggested that this hashtag should become a marker of neonatal Evidence Based Medicine posts. Great initiative! Now I have to find out how to … Continue reading →

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PAS 2018: why can’t we get the Apps/website even close to being OK?

Posted on 12 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

The PAS 2018 App was an improvement over the disaster that was 2017. At least searches often worked, and you could create a schedule. But if I wanted to search for the presentations, even my own, of which I was … Continue reading →

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PAS 2018 No6: Brett, the HUNTER

Posted on 12 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

Brett Manley from Melbourne is now the person in the world with the greatest trial experience in the use of high flow nasal cannulae in the newborn. He has been the HIPSTER, and is now the HUNTER, I can’t find … Continue reading →

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