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About Keith Barrington

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

Being a Parent and a Doctor

Posted on 24 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

A story published in the PNEJM from a mother of a patient with epilepsy that was very difficult to treat who is also a physician, as is the father. Their boy eventually had seizure surgery, more than once. She ends … Continue reading →

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Improving Research

Posted on 20 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

I have mentioned Richard Lehman’s weekly journal review here before. This week’s edition starts with a critique of a trial published in the PNEJM, funded by a company that makes a new antiviral, the results show a reduction in virus … Continue reading →

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Treatment of hypotension in the very preterm infant

Posted on 16 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

When hypotension should be treated and with what are important and difficult questions in the care of the very preterm infant. The international HIP collaboration (see the link in the side bar) has been funded to try and find some … Continue reading →

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Fetal surgery for diaphragmatic hernias: are we there yet?

Posted on 16 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

This new Australian publication asks the question  in its title that many of us are asking. (Cundy TP, Gardener GJ, Andersen CC, Kirby CP, McBride CA, Teague WJ: Fetoscopic endoluminal tracheal occlusion (feto) for congenital diaphragmatic hernia in australia and new zealand: … Continue reading →

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Preterm twins seem to care for one another

Posted on 14 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

There has been a lot of talk about co-bedding twins in the NICU, but relatively little research. I was involved in an RCT of co-bedding in preterm twins, looking at responses to painful stimuli (67 pars of twins were recruited). … Continue reading →

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Improving research

Posted on 14 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

A series of articles from a group of the great and the good in clinical research methodology and design. (Including Iain Chalmers and John Ioannidis). They all seem to be open access, and make some very important points and good … Continue reading →

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Comments about ‘More than a Diagnosis’

Posted on 13 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

My recent post about Annie Janvier’s paper, which described the experiences of families who had an antenatal diagnosis of trisomy 13 or trisomy 18 generated a lot of comments (at least a lot for my blog). Many of them are … Continue reading →

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Cohort study of Probiotics in our NICU

Posted on 13 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

Our article describing the results of introducing routine probiotic prophylaxis in our NICU has just become available on-line. Janvier A, Malo J, Barrington KJ: Cohort Study of Probiotics in a North American Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Journal of pediatrics … Continue reading →

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NIDCAP, battling systematic reviews.

Posted on 7 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

I mentioned Arne Ohlsson’s review of the NIDCAP studies in a previous post. A new systematic review comes to different conclusions. This review (Fazilleau L, Parienti JJ, Bellot A, Guillois B: Nidcap in preterm infants and the neurodevelopmental effect in … Continue reading →

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Stem Cells for BPD, we might be getting there, but without the cells

Posted on 7 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

The development of this field has been fascinating, one of the most productive investigators has been Bernard Thébaud who has just written a very clear review article for non cell researchers in Pediatric Research with his colleague Moses Fung. (Fung … Continue reading →

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