Monthly Archives: August 2021

Pain studies with untreated control groups in babies are unethical.

Posted on 19 August 2021 by Keith Barrington

If you are performing a study of pain control in the newborn and you assign babies to untreated controls, you are creating unnecessary avoidable pain in the control patients. That is true for any patient who is incompetent, obviously including … Continue reading →

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Plug the Lung Until it Grows: the FETO RCTs of antenatal diaphragmatic hernia intervention.

Posted on 18 August 2021 by Keith Barrington

What was at one time called PLUG, and, with the change from open to endoscopic intervention, is now called FETO (fetal endoscopic tracheal occlusion) is a way to harness the normal physiology of the lung in congential diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) … Continue reading →

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What is critical in a “critical sample”?

Posted on 17 August 2021 by Keith Barrington

It is common practice in the evaluation of neonatal hypoglycaemic episodes, especially if unusual or prolonged, to perform a “critical sample”. This is performed to rule out underlying metabolic or endocrine disorders. But what should the critical sample consist of? … Continue reading →

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