Category Archives: Neonatal Research

Who should get surfactant?

Posted on 23 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

I think the literature is clear, if you need surfactant, the earlier you get it the better. If you don’t need surfactant you are better off never being intubated. So how do we decide? Current management protocols usually put babies … Continue reading →

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Susceptibility to Sepsis

Posted on 20 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

It looks like those Toll-like receptors may indeed be important. I included a review article in a previous Neonatal Updates, which was nice introduction to these transmembrane receptors that are important in immune responses. A new article suggests that variants … Continue reading →

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Teaching Well

Posted on 19 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

If you are a clinical teacher, and you have access to the Lancet, you should read this Reilly BM: Inconvenient truths about effective clinical teaching. The Lancet, 370(9588):705-711. Great insights, and good guidance for teachers.  

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End of Life, at Birth

Posted on 19 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

An Op-Ed piece in the NY Times a couple of weeks ago had that title. I was rather disappointed by the piece, written by an experienced neonatologist; now I suppose for a piece written for the NY Times the fact … Continue reading →

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Nutritional Catch-Up

Posted on 19 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

This is my attempt to catch up with some interesting publications from the last few weeks, about nutritional interventions and necrotizing enterocolitis. Karagol BS, Zenciroglu A, Okumus N, Polin RA: Randomized controlled trial of slow vs rapid enteral feeding advancements … Continue reading →

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On the Radio

Posted on 15 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

I was interviewed for an edition of the NPR Radiolab program a couple of months ago. I have only just had the chance to listen to the program, (called ’23 weeks and 6 days’) and I think the emission was … Continue reading →

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Long term outcomes, Quality of Life.

Posted on 15 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

I heard a presentation of this excellent study when I was in Melbourne last year, and have been waiting for it to be available in print. There are now about 30 studies of quality of life in subjects who were … Continue reading →

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Now you know. EUNOs long term outcomes

Posted on 14 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

The European Nitric Oxide study has just published the 2 year outcomes of their trial. The original trial was one of the studies of routine NO administration to preterm babies. In this RCT 800 infants, <29 weeks gestation, with mild/moderate … Continue reading →

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Cervical pessaries? Really?

Posted on 13 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

A new study in the Lancet is a multi-center RCT of the use of a cervical pessary to reduce preterm delivery in twin pregnancies. I must say this sounded a bit unlikely to me, but it turns out there just … Continue reading →

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Breast-feeding the preterm

Posted on 9 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

In order to catch up a little with the last month’s publications, I will post a few things with grouped studies that seem to me to be related. Alves E, Rodrigues C, Fraga S, Barros H, Silva S: Parents’ views … Continue reading →

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