Author Archives: Keith Barrington

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About Keith Barrington

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

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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What is a perfect baby?

Posted on 22 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

With the recent publication from the NICHD network concerning survival rates of the most immature infants, there has been a lot of discussion. Including a strange article in “the Daily Beast”, by Jeff Perlman. Why he would publish something there … Continue reading →

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Genetic variants and NEC risk

Posted on 19 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

This post is out of my usual comfort zone, but I thought I’d write about it as it is fascinating, and might lead to something clinical. I don’t understand any of the lab methodology of this study, except to say … Continue reading →

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Cord milking/delayed clamping at the 2015 PAS-meeting

Posted on 19 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

I have tried to go through the abstracts from PAS to find those that had new information, from controlled trials, about the efficacy and safety of cord milking and/or delayed clamping. Mercer and the group from Rhode Island presented the … Continue reading →

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