Author Archives: Keith Barrington

About Keith Barrington

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

Personalized Medicine in the NICU

Posted on 20 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

An article I wrote, with that title, as an open peer commentary in the American Journal of Bioethics has just appeared on-line. The first 50 people to click on the link at the bottom of this post below can get a free full … Continue reading →

Posted in Neonatal Research | Tagged Ethics, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Design | 1 Comment

Are we Civilized?

Posted on 20 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

I have always thought that one very important test of a truly civilized culture is how a society treats those who are less fortunate. An editorial in the Lancet (thanks to Nick Embleton for alerting me to it) takes up … Continue reading →

Posted in Neonatal Research | Tagged breast milk, Global Neonatal Health, Preventing Prematurity | 1 Comment

Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms; where should we go from here?

Posted on 19 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Do we really need a position statement? There is no position statement of the CPS about counselling parents when their child presents with meningococcal disease. There is no position statement for the child with serious brain trauma. A position statement … Continue reading →

Posted in The CPS antenatal counselling statement | Tagged Ethics, long term outcomes, Resuscitation | Leave a comment

Captain America?

Posted on 18 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

For the second US oriented post today, I wanted to refer to a great article by a Sikh man who dressed up as Captain America and walked around in public. We writes about his experiences in a piece published on-line … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates

Posted on 18 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Kapadia VS, Chalak LF, Sparks JE, Allen JR, Savani RC, Wyckoff MH: Resuscitation of preterm neonates with limited versus high oxygen strategy. Pediatrics 2013. This trial randomized infants 24 to 34 weeks of age who needed to be resuscitated. Infants … Continue reading →

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The walking dead: the uninsured in the USA

Posted on 18 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

I don’t normally comment on politics here, it isn’t the point of this blog but sometimes I probably won’t be able to stop myself. I worked in San Diego for 4 years, and I saw a lot of the good … Continue reading →

Posted in Not neonatology | Tagged Health Care Organization | 3 Comments

Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 6 Conflating Death and Disability

Posted on 11 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. This particular … Continue reading →

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Communication ability in persons with trisomy 18 and trisomy 13

Posted on 10 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

As a neonatologist there is much important pediatric literature that I do not follow. There is much that has relevance to what we do in the NICU, so much that no-one can keep up with it all. Many of us are … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocating for impaired children | Tagged long term outcomes, trisomy | 22 Comments

Banking on it

Posted on 10 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

I guess this was the next step, after blood banks, and human milk banks, the next big advance is a poop bank. Although we don’t know if autologous stool transplants will be as successful as donor stool to treat C … Continue reading →