Category Archives: Neonatal Research

Does being ventilated hurt? It depends who you ask

Posted on 21 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Ruth Guinsburg is a neonatologist in Sao Paulo who has been super-productive, especially in the area of pain control in the newborn. Her latest is an interesting comparison of how caregivers and parents rate pain in infants on ventilators. Elias … Continue reading →

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Yet more probiotic stuff

Posted on 14 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Here is the other study of saccharomyces that I mentioned previously on this blog (Demirel G, Erdeve O, Celik IH, Dilmen U: Saccharomyces boulardii for prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants: A randomized, controlled study. Acta Paediatrica 2013) recently … Continue reading →

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Your mother is the source of your microbiome

Posted on 12 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

An interesting review article from last year (free access) which discusses information from many different species, several non-mammalian, that show that, not too surprisingly, our mothers are the source of our microbiome. They speculate that the bacterial contamination of breast … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates

Posted on 12 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Hyland R, Komlósi K, Alleman B, Tolnai M, Wood L, Bell E, Ertl T: Infantile hemangiomas and retinopathy of prematurity: Clues to the regulation of vasculogenesis. Eur J Pediatr 2013, 172(6):803-809. This observational study in 3 different NICUs shows that … Continue reading →

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Talk to me!

Posted on 12 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

A new review article and a new research publication address the same issues, the first is a thoughtful review article: (Rand K, Lahav A. Impact of the NICU environment on language deprivation in preterm infants. Acta Paediatrica. 2014;103(3):243-8.), the authors … Continue reading →

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Probiotics : Time for Action

Posted on 10 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

As I have noted before on this blog, our article showing the effects of the introduction of routine probiotics in our NICU has been published on-line. The Journal of Pediatrics decided to accompany it with an editorial by William Tarnow-Mordi … Continue reading →

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Neonatal Updates

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Alderliesten T, Lemmers PMA, van Haastert IC, de Vries LS, Bonestroo HJC, Baerts W, van Bel F: Hypotension in Preterm Neonates: Low Blood Pressure Alone Does Not Affect Neurodevelopmental Outcome. The Journal of pediatrics 2014. In this observational study of … Continue reading →

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If massage is so good, how come the research is so bad?

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

I think its likely that massage therapy for the preterm infant has some benefits, unfortunately much of the research is under-powered, badly designed, inappropriately analyzed and overinterpreted. A case in point is a new study in Early Human Development, which … Continue reading →

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Fundoplication, the final word for reflux… or is it?

Posted on 3 February 2014 by Keith Barrington

Infants with severe neurological impairment may have difficulty with oral feeding, and are at risk of aspiration if they regurgitate. Therefore when a feeding gastrostomy is performed, there is often an accompanying fundoplication, It even becomes sometimes so banal that … Continue reading →

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Running, skiing, skating… for a good cause

Posted on 31 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

The young leaders’ circle is a charitable organisation that is a partner with the Sainte-Justine Foundation in the winter triathlon fund-raiser that is taking place on February the 7th in Montreal. The funds raised will be going to support maternal … Continue reading →

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