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About Keith Barrington

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

More on Probiotics

I received a comment from Colin Morley (everyone in neonatology knows who Colin is, for anyone else who is reading this, he is a neonatologist and researcher from Cambridge and Melbourne). I asked his permission to post it (with my … Continue reading

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Preventing Prematurity

We’ve known for a while that progesterones can reduce prematurity in certain situations. Intramuscular 17 hydroxy progesterone caproate reduces prematurity in women who have had a previous premature baby. (Meis’s article link below) Now a systematic review of intravaginal progesterone … Continue reading

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Pain relief during retinopathy screening, nothing works very well.

Mandel R, Ali N, Chen J, Galic IJ, Levesque L: Nitrous oxide analgesia during retinopathy screening: a randomised controlled trial. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2012, 97(2):F83-87. http://fn.bmj.com/content/97/2/F83 My colleagues and friends Romain Mandel and Nabeel Ali performed a … Continue reading

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Probiotics to Prevent NEC: Why aren’t we saving babies yet?

The latest systematic review of Probiotics to Prevent NEC in Preterm infants Wang Q, Dong J, Zhu Y: Probiotic supplement reduces risk of necrotizing enterocolitis and mortality in preterm very low-birth-weight infants: an updated meta-analysis of 20 randomized, controlled trials. J … Continue reading

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Can we study Hypotension in Extremely Preterm Infants?

Dr Beau Batton and colleagues from the NICHD network have just published a paper detailing their attempt, and failure, to design a trial of early hypotension treatment. The design looks fine on paper, but when they tried to do the trial there … Continue reading

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Hello Newborn World!

For many years I have been screening a number of websites, contents pages of pediatrics and general journals, and other services to add references to my personal database, and also to send out reading lists to fellows, nurse practitioners and … Continue reading

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