Monthly Archives: May 2022

Preventing desaturation during intubation. Shine on, you crazy….

Posted on 26 May 2022 by Keith Barrington

Recommendations for older children and adults during endotracheal intubation frequently include the use of free flow oxygen, indeed when I was a fellow with Neil Finer we routinely provided additional free flow oxygen from a catheter placed near the nose, … Continue reading →

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World NEC awareness day, part 2

Posted on 17 May 2022 by Keith Barrington

As well as all the high tech mechanistic studies in NEC, such as those that I just posted about, sometimes we need to take a step back and ask some very basic questions. What is the current natural history of … Continue reading →

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World NEC awareness day.

Posted on 17 May 2022 by Keith Barrington

As we approach world NEC awareness day (May 17th) I thought I’d do a quick PubMed search to see if I’ve missed anything recently, so I started typing “necrotizing” in the search bar, which immediately suggested “necrotizing enterocolitis” as one … Continue reading →

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Maternal breast milk is risky too

Posted on 12 May 2022 by Keith Barrington

Human breast milk, when freshly expressed, contains all sorts of goodies, to use the technical scientific term. Many of which are adversely affected by standard pasteurisation (called Holder pasteurisation, which is very similar to what Louis Pasteur himself invented in … Continue reading →

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AAP guidance on probiotics. As wrong-headed as a head can be wrong.

Posted on 9 May 2022 by Keith Barrington

The AAP issued guidance on probiotic use in the preterm infant last year in the form of what they call a “clinical report”, which I didn’t comment on at the time, I thought it might be a bit redundant as … Continue reading →

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