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About Keith Barrington

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

Neonatal Updates #30

Posted on 19 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

Ichinohashi Y, Sato Y, Saito A, Ito M, Watanabe K, Hayakawa M, Nakanishi K, Wakatsuki A, Oohira A: Dexamethasone administration to the neonatal rat results in neurological dysfunction at the juvenile stage even at low doses. Early Human Development 2013, … Continue reading →

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words fail me

Posted on 19 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

Living not far from the USA but having a much lower rate of gun crime, I am astonished by the success of the gun lobby in the US. Despite 90% of the public being in agreement with the very modest … Continue reading →

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Supporting SUPPORT

Posted on 18 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

A great editorial in the PNEJM today from Jeffrey Drazen, he deconstructs the OHRP ruling about the SUPPORT trial consent form. He ends with this phrase ‘We are dismayed by the response of the OHRP and consider the SUPPORT trial … Continue reading →

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No ethical breakdown here

Posted on 16 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

As I mentioned at the end of my first post about this, the New York Times have jumped into the fray with an editorial entitled ‘An ethical breakdown‘ published today. They take as ‘gospel’ the OHRP findings concerning the study, and show … Continue reading →

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How to show you don’t understand research in critical patients

Posted on 16 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

To continue with my diatribe about the OHRP decision concerning the SUPPORT trial: At one point in the document sent to the University of Alabama, the OHRP quote an editorial by Jay Greenspan: ‘…Although maintaining ranges of hemoglobin oxygen saturation … Continue reading →

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Now we will have to know the results of our research before we start the study

Posted on 16 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

The DHHS Office for Human Research Protections has just issued a ridiculous ruling. According to them the consent forms for SUPPORT were not sufficiently clear about risks of blindness in the higher oxygen group, and the risks of death in … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates #29

Posted on 15 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

van der AA NE, Dudink J, Benders MJNL, Govaert P, van Straaten HLM, Porro GL, Groenendaal F, de Vries LS: Neonatal posterior cerebral artery stroke: Clinical presentation, mri findings, and outcome. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 2013, 55(3):283-290. As you … Continue reading →

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Science Miscellany

Posted on 15 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

A great quote from Robin Ince, who was asked to sit on a panel entitled ‘Is science the new religion?’ ‘The answer to “is science the new religion?” is obviously yes, so long as you redefine religion as “a self-correcting, … Continue reading →

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Touch by therapists is not ‘Therapeutic Touch’

Posted on 15 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

Honda N, Ohgi S, Wada N, Loo KK, Higashimoto Y, Fukuda K: Effect of therapeutic touch on brain activation of preterm infants in response to sensory punctate stimulus: A near-infrared spectroscopy-based study. Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and … Continue reading →

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Blog Updates

Posted on 12 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

I have updated the page with the list of publications from our group since 2003. We are now up to 280! Keep it up colleagues. I have also updated the ‘recent presentations’ page with the ppt files that I used … Continue reading →

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