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About Keith Barrington

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

Echocardiography is painless

Posted on 11 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

Lavoie PM, et al. Oral glucose during targeted neonatal echocardiography: is it useful? Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 2015. Echocardiography can sometimes disturb unstable babies. In this randomized controlled trial the investigators wanted to see … Continue reading →

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Maureen Hack’s contributions to neonatology, or at least, some of them.

Posted on 8 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

Since the death of Maureen Hack last week, I have been thinking a little about some of her important contributions to neonatology. In part because whenever I present, or write, about the prediction of outcomes in very preterm babies, I … Continue reading →

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Death In Simulation

Posted on 8 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

Our group at Sainte Justine has just published an article, now available on-line in Pediatrics. (Lizotte M-H, Latraverse V, Moussa A, Lachance C, Barrington K, Janvier A. Trainee Perspectives on Manikin Death During Mock Codes. Pediatrics. 2015) We had originally … Continue reading →

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Re-re-re-visited (delayed cord clamping of course)

Posted on 5 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

I received 2 comments about the last posting re: DCC. The way I set up this blog the comments aren’t necessarily very obvious, especially if you visit the home page rather than following a link to the individual posting. So I … Continue reading →

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Very Sad News

Posted on 5 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

Maureen Hack has died. Apparently she died earlier today. Although several years past a usual person’s retirement age, Maureen was still a towering, (metaphorically) and very active figure in neonatology, her follow up research, and her insights were very valuable for … Continue reading →

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Keep people like this away from the NICU

Posted on 4 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

After my novel-length post earlier, a quick rant. In the few weeks since the NICHD ‘before 24’ paper came out there have been a number of newspaper articles reporting the results, and responses to them. A report in the National … Continue reading →

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Delayed Cord Clamping re-re-visited

Posted on 4 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

I have been trying to develop some sort of protocol for babies in our center, so I have been reading in some detail the studies about very preterm births and cord clamping that are in the literature. It seems from … Continue reading →

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Should we resuscitate children?

Posted on 27 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

I am going to be deliberately provocative today… for a change. A very interesting study from Japan has reported the results of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children. Goto Y, et al. Decision tree model for predicting long-term outcomes in children with … Continue reading →

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Are we family centered? Families don’t think so!

Posted on 25 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

Finlayson K, et al. Mothers’ perceptions of family centred care in neonatal intensive care units. Sex Reprod Healthc. 2014;5(3):119-24. This qualitative study interviewed mothers who had babies in one of three NICUs in the UK which claim to practice family-centered care. As … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates

Posted on 24 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

Aly H, et al. Melatonin use for neuroprotection in perinatal asphyxia: a randomized controlled pilot study. J Perinatol. 2015;35(3):186-91. Thirty asphyxiated infants undergoing hypothermia were randomized to melatonin or not, in a study from Egypt. The melatonin was given enterally, … Continue reading →

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