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About Keith Barrington

I am a neonatologist and clinical researcher at Sainte Justine University Health Center in Montréal

Breast = best: past your eyes?

Posted on 20 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

The title is from one of those bad punny jokes that you never forget, about taking a bath in milk (pasteurized? No just up to my chin. Boom, boom). For the readers of this blog who are not native English … Continue reading →

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Extremely Preterm Infants, long term outcomes

Posted on 20 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

A new publication examines in great detail the cognitive outcomes of preterm babies less than 29 weeks gestation. The group from Melbourne, the Victorian Infant Collaborative, has published another study. (Hutchinson EA, De Luca CR, Doyle LW, et al: School-age … Continue reading →

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Prepuce wars

Posted on 19 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

A commentary written by a very long list of authors in response to the AAP’s position on circumcision. (Frisch M, Aigrain Y, Barauskas V, et al: Cultural Bias in the AAP’s 2012 Technical Report and Policy Statement on Male Circumcision. … Continue reading →

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Pacifiers (soothers, dummies) are friendly to babies

Posted on 19 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

The baby friendly initiative has been a force for improving breast-feeding rates, with many sensible parts to the program. Unfortunately some of it isn’t evidence based, such as the prohibition of what I will call soothers. I’m originally from England … Continue reading →

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Weekly Updates #0

Posted on 18 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

I know this is out of sequence, and my weekly updates aren’t in any way weekly, but I thought I’d direct anyone who is interested in keeping an eye on general medical issues to Richard Lehman’s journal review. He is … Continue reading →

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Not neonatology: Brian Cox again

Posted on 15 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

There is an amazing new series on BBC. Animated by Brian Cox again, called ‘Wonders of Life’. If you can figure out how to get access (within the UK it is available to licence holders, outside of the UK you … Continue reading →

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New link in side bar

Posted on 15 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

I don’t play with this blog’s appearance very much, I don’t have enough time to fiddle about. But I have just added a new link to the side-bar. A link to a very young foundation, the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation. … Continue reading →

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Weekly updates #26

Posted on 14 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

Richburg DA, Kim JH: Real-time bowel ultrasound to characterize intestinal motility in the preterm neonate. J Perinatol 2013. You can quantify intestinal motility with bed-side ultrasound. Neat. Now we need to know what to do with the information, sounds like … Continue reading →

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Losing a twin

Posted on 13 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

Vasilescu C, Garel M, Caeymaex L: [experience of parents after the loss of a newborn twin in the nicu: A qualitative study 3 years after the death.]. Archives de pediatrie. 2013(0). This is a nice qualitative study, with a reasonable … Continue reading →

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Oh No; not renal dose dopamine again!

Posted on 13 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

This is the sort of thing that really irritates me: If you report ‘we did X, and Y happened’ the obvious question should be, ‘what would have happened if you didn’t do X?’ That is called having controls! It is … Continue reading →

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