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About Keith Barrington

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

Now you know. EUNOs long term outcomes

Posted on 14 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

The European Nitric Oxide study has just published the 2 year outcomes of their trial. The original trial was one of the studies of routine NO administration to preterm babies. In this RCT 800 infants, <29 weeks gestation, with mild/moderate … Continue reading →

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Cervical pessaries? Really?

Posted on 13 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

A new study in the Lancet is a multi-center RCT of the use of a cervical pessary to reduce preterm delivery in twin pregnancies. I must say this sounded a bit unlikely to me, but it turns out there just … Continue reading →

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Breast-feeding the preterm

Posted on 9 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

In order to catch up a little with the last month’s publications, I will post a few things with grouped studies that seem to me to be related. Alves E, Rodrigues C, Fraga S, Barros H, Silva S: Parents’ views … Continue reading →

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Back in the Saddle

Posted on 9 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

After a long and extremely enjoyable break, I’m back! Thought I might restart the blog with a few not neonatology things that I enjoyed recently. This post by Ed Yong on a study of how the malaria mosquito’s mouth parts … Continue reading →

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Galileo Galilei

Posted on 21 July 2013 by Keith Barrington

As you have may have guessed from the reduced frequency of my posts, I am on vacation! I am actually in Tuscany, in a beautiful villa close to Empoli, which is about 20 kilometers from Florence. A couple of days … Continue reading →

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More SUPPORT controversy

Posted on 16 July 2013 by Keith Barrington

The BMJ has just published an ‘Observations’ piece, with the tag line ‘The Washington Brief’ which would make you think that it is a news item. It is, in contrast, a very biased recounting of some of the controversy raised … Continue reading →

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Singing for Cystic Fibrosis

Posted on 16 July 2013 by Keith Barrington

My nephew, Charles Barrington, wrote and performed a song to mark Cystic Fibrosis week 2013. If you appreciate it, send some cash to your local CF charity!

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EPO, re-introducing confusion

Posted on 4 July 2013 by Keith Barrington

I thought that routine erythropoietin (EPO) treatment of preterm infants had been thrown out of the window. It is well known that EPO levels are low in preterms after birth, which is part of the multifactorial pathophysiology of anaemia of … Continue reading →

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HIE: what’s next?

Posted on 28 June 2013 by Keith Barrington

Kapadia VS, Chalak LF, Dupont TL, Rollins NK, Brion LP, Wyckoff MH: Perinatal Asphyxia with Hyperoxemia within the First Hour of Life Is Associated with Moderate to Severe Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. The Journal of pediatrics 2013. If you are acidotic at … Continue reading →

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Intensive care for the extremely preterm infant requires intensive care, and working with Obstetricians

Posted on 23 June 2013 by Keith Barrington

Alleman BW, Bell EF, Li L, Dagle JM, Smith PB, Ambalavanan N, et al. Individual and Center-Level Factors Affecting Mortality Among Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants. Pediatrics. 2013. This paper from the NICHD network shows substantial variation in survival between … Continue reading →

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