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

Not neonatology: the antipodes week 4, Queenstown, Ben Lomond, and glenorchy

Posted on 10 January 2015 by Keith Barrington

After our time in the geothermally active centre of the north island of New Zealand, we have now changed island. Queenstown is on the shore of Lake Wakatipu, we were there for new years eve and fireworks over the lake, … Continue reading →

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Je Suis Charlie

Posted on 7 January 2015 by Keith Barrington

I am horrified by the atrocity in Paris. Freedom is under attack. The best response I have read so far is a blog post in the Spectator by Alex Massie. And the many thousands of people who have congregated in demonstrations … Continue reading →

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Very early caffeine

Posted on 7 January 2015 by Keith Barrington

Some caffeine before getting out of bed would be handy sometimes, but our new publication, using data from the CNN, that I was involved in, was actually looking at caffeine us in the preterm baby, early during their lives. We … Continue reading →

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SFU !

Posted on 4 January 2015 by Keith Barrington

My good friend Barbara Farlow sent me a link to a talk from TEDx SFU. At first I thought that was a txt term for not speaking, but them I realized there was a letter missing, I was thinking of … Continue reading →

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Not neonatology: the antipodes week 3. Tongariro Crossing: Sweet As!

Posted on 1 January 2015 by Keith Barrington

We ended week 2 and had a warm Christmas in Rorotua, then moved on to Tongariro national park. The plan was to cross the Tongariro Alpine Crossing, which we have long time thought would be one of the highlights of … Continue reading →

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Therapeutic Hypothermia: How low can we go?

Posted on 29 December 2014 by Keith Barrington

A report of secondary outcomes from a trial, prior to the report of the primary outcomes should, in general I think, be resisted. Having said that, we reported the secondary outcomes of the CAP trial before we had the primary … Continue reading →

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Counselling parents when their infants have CNS injury.

Posted on 29 December 2014 by Keith Barrington

Marcus Brecht and Dominic Wilkinson have just published an interesting study detailing treatment limitation discussions in the NICU which came after diagnosis of major CNS injury, and what happened to the babies after these discussions. There is a lot which … Continue reading →

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Not neonatology : the antipodes, week 2

Posted on 29 December 2014 by Keith Barrington

The rain slowed down towards the end of our week in Auckland, and then we headed north for a stay in Paihia. Paihia is the main town on the Bay of Islands, one of the places where Captain Cook made … Continue reading →

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Predicting Outcomes?

Posted on 18 December 2014 by Keith Barrington

A new publication and an editorial address some of the issues around whether we can predict outcomes in preterm infants. This was a large cohort study from the NICHD network, the usual multi-multi-multi-author paper, 34 authors wrote this paper apparently, … Continue reading →

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Not neonatology: le grand tour

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Keith Barrington

We have decided as a family to take a break, a pseudo-sabbatical to visit the down-unders, learn about their culture, present at conferences, and generally focus on de-stressing and self-improvement. The 3 kids are out of school, and will be … Continue reading →

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