Category Archives: Neonatal Research

Public citizen are becoming a public danger

Posted on 13 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

Public citizen are at it again, they have written another letter to the director of the DHHSS to try and follow up on their previous nonsense. I didn’t write about this when I first heard about it, as 1. it … Continue reading →

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HIP Protocol published

Posted on 13 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

The Hypotension in Preterms trial is about to get underway, with all the final hurdles just about cleared. Just at the right time our protocol has been published in ‘Neonatology’. Dempsey EM, Barrington KJ, Marlow N, O’Donnell CP, Miletin J, … Continue reading →

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Insulin, nutrition, insulin-like growth factors and the retina

Posted on 13 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

I’d really like to see a good quality review article with that title, there are several that touch on these issues (for example, here and here), but I find the data hard to digest, probably because it is relatively novel … Continue reading →

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Weaning CPAP

Posted on 10 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

One of the things that we should always remember in neonatology is that the main goal of any supportive therapy is to stop it. The main goal of blood pressure support should be to achieve hemodynamic stability in order to … Continue reading →

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Leave my renal nerves alone, please.

Posted on 10 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

Not having looked after an adult for many years (although I did do a year of postgraduate training in adult internal medicine before switching to paediatrics; I thought I should practice on the old ones before subjecting children to my … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates : pain and stress

Posted on 28 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Cabral DM, Antonini SRR, Custódio RJ, Martinelli Jr CE, da Silva CAB. Measurement of Salivary Cortisol as a Marker of Stress in Newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Hormone Research in Paediatrics. 2013;79(6):373-8. As I noted previously, we have … Continue reading →

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More about mother’s voices

Posted on 26 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

When I first read this article I thought that the authors had rigged up a system to play music actually in the babies mouth, but I think I was wrong about that. Chorna OD, Slaughter JC, Wang L, Stark AR, … Continue reading →

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Ventilator Graphics: Are Pressure Volume Loops interesting?

Posted on 24 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

If you buy a new ventilator today for your preterm infants, you cannot avoid having ‘sophisticated graphics’. These ‘sophisticated graphics’ are supposed to help you ventilate the babies appropriately. I have always been very skeptical about ‘sophisticated graphics’ as they … Continue reading →

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Pain, still bad for you

Posted on 24 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Roofthooft DWE, Simons SHP, Anand KJS, Tibboel D, van Dijk M: Eight years later, are we still hurting newborn infants. Neonatology 2014, 105(3):218-226. The answer is yes, but much less! In this study from a single hospital in Rotterdam with … Continue reading →

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Stop the Antibiotics!

Posted on 21 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

We know that prolonged antibiotic use in preterm babies increase their chance of later developing NEC. The assumption being that the disturbance of the intestinal flora leads to the increase in susceptibility. Here is some more direct evidence to support … Continue reading →

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