Category Archives: Neonatal Research

Life, and medicine, with a disability

Posted on 12 August 2017 by Keith Barrington

I met the author of this article at a CPS meeting a few years ago, she immediately impressed me with her unique perspective. Paige is a developmental pediatrician who does long-term follow-up of preterms, and is involved in developmental evaluation … Continue reading →

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A shiny new test

Posted on 14 July 2017 by Keith Barrington

I have invented a shiny new test, which detects brain injury in preterm infants just before they go home. It can be used at discharge to predict whether a former extremely preterm baby will have developmental delay or neurologic impairment. … Continue reading →

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Thanks for Canadian Medicare and Tommy Douglas

Posted on 14 July 2017 by Keith Barrington

I recently had an acute medical event, took myself off to a local emergency room, received excellent immediate attention. After about 8 hours of care, an expensive drug that I had never heard of before, multiple disposables and several high … Continue reading →

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Better Nutrition, Better Brains

Posted on 5 July 2017 by Keith Barrington

I write frequently on this blog about how prejudice regarding developmental and neurologic problems, and prejudice about preterm infants, combine to over-emphasize the difficulties that former preterm babies have, to the extent that professional societies develop guidelines for withholding care … Continue reading →

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New insights on intraventricular haemorrhage

Posted on 19 June 2017 by Keith Barrington

A fascinating new study has been published (Tortora D, et al. Differences in subependymal vein anatomy may predispose preterm infants to GMH–IVH. Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 2017) looking at cerebral venous anatomy as shown … Continue reading →

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Not just neonatology: trip to Buenos Aires

Posted on 5 June 2017 by Keith Barrington

I was in Buenos Aires last week for a tremendous conference. With many excellent speakers (and me!) and the usual amazing hospitality that anyone who has visited Argentina will have received. I promised the participants that I would put my … Continue reading →

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Feed and grow

Posted on 25 May 2017 by Keith Barrington

How to measure growth? How to describe growth rates? What does it matter? Several related articles in today’s post, the first two are about how to measure growth in preterm infants: Ashton JJ, et al. Assessing the growth of preterm … Continue reading →

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Cochrane reviews

Posted on 25 May 2017 by Keith Barrington

The NICHD, in case you didn’t know, supports the neonatal Cochrane reviews,  they are all on their website at this address. I don’t really like the way they are formatted on their website, you have to click on links to … Continue reading →

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Probiotics for extremely preterm infants

Posted on 25 May 2017 by Keith Barrington

The use of probiotics for Necrotising enterocolitis prophylaxis in the very preterm is increasing across Canada. There are apparently, though, centers that will only give them to larger preterm infants, and not to the most immature. I think that is … Continue reading →

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The artificial placenta and the end of neonatology

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Keith Barrington

OK, so I guess I had better blog about this article, that it seems almost everyone has been talking about since it was published… I have heard for some years that someone at CHOP (for those who are not “in … Continue reading →

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