Category Archives: Neonatal Research

PAS meeting 2024: The Silverman Lecture

Posted on 11 May 2024 by Keith Barrington

For those who are unaware, the Silverman Lecture is an annual honour bestowed by the AAP. A neonatologist who has made. or is making, major impacts in neonatology is asked to deliver the lecture. Bill Silverman was one of the … Continue reading →

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PAS report 2024: Alan Jobe

Posted on 10 May 2024 by Keith Barrington

There was a hiccup yesterday, I was writing the part 2 and it suddenly got posted as just the title, and the entire post disappeared. I had to start all over (which has never happened before, there are usually automatic … Continue reading →

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PAS report 2024: Clinical Trials part 2

Posted on 9 May 2024 by Keith Barrington

The NeoGluCO trial This trial was a modestly sized RCT of low dose diazoxide for treatment of persistent or severe hypoglycaemia in newborn infants of at least 35 weeks gestation. I say “modestly sized” as a descriptor, not a criticism, … Continue reading →

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PAS report 2024: Clinical Trials part 1.

Posted on 9 May 2024 by Keith Barrington

As usual the PAS meeting was packed with neonatology. The App was even worse than last year, crashing frequently on many peoples’ phones. It was completely useless for the posters, as they were listed by number, and the different sessions … Continue reading →

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Not neonatology. Birding in western Ontario

Posted on 9 May 2024 by Keith Barrington

On my way to the PAS annual meeting in Toronto, I decided to spend a couple of days at Point Pelee national park. It is the southern-most point of Canada, a peninsula jutting out into lake Erie that is a … Continue reading →

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When you can see what you are doing, you can see what you have done: Video-Laryngoscopy in the newborn

Posted on 8 May 2024 by Keith Barrington

I have been increasingly using video laryngoscopy in my practice, both when I myself perform the intubation, and when I am supervising a resident or other trainee. I usually ask them to use a VL when it is a nurse … Continue reading →

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How should we pasteurize donor breast milk?

Posted on 23 April 2024 by Keith Barrington

The standard method of pasteurization of donor breast milk, and I believe the only method approved by HMBANA (the human milk banking association of north america), is similar to what Louis Pasteur himself came up with a couple of centuries … Continue reading →

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22 to 23 weeks gestation, what is so special?

Posted on 27 March 2024 by Keith Barrington

I was confused by this new article published in the Journal of Pediatrics. I really don’t understand what the point of it is, except to try and discourage intensive care for one particular group of high risk babies (Guillen U, … Continue reading →

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Oxygen is toxic in older kids too!

Posted on 22 February 2024 by Keith Barrington

A new large RCT from PICUs in the UK randomly compared 2 saturation target ranges, 88-92 and >94%. (Peters MJ, et al. Conservative versus liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children (Oxy-PICU): a UK multicentre, open, parallel-group, randomised clinical trial. … Continue reading →

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Donor human milk, not toxic after all!

Posted on 31 January 2024 by Keith Barrington

It was fairly recently that I deconstructed a truly terrible database analysis which claimed that neonatal mortality was dramatically increased among very preterm infants who received mother’s own milk (MoM) and donor human milk (DHM), without any formula or fortifier, … Continue reading →

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