Category Archives: Neonatal Research

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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More SUPPORT controversy

Posted on 16 July 2013 by Keith Barrington

The BMJ has just published an ‘Observations’ piece, with the tag line ‘The Washington Brief’ which would make you think that it is a news item. It is, in contrast, a very biased recounting of some of the controversy raised … Continue reading →

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EPO, re-introducing confusion

Posted on 4 July 2013 by Keith Barrington

I thought that routine erythropoietin (EPO) treatment of preterm infants had been thrown out of the window. It is well known that EPO levels are low in preterms after birth, which is part of the multifactorial pathophysiology of anaemia of … Continue reading →

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HIE: what’s next?

Posted on 28 June 2013 by Keith Barrington

Kapadia VS, Chalak LF, Dupont TL, Rollins NK, Brion LP, Wyckoff MH: Perinatal Asphyxia with Hyperoxemia within the First Hour of Life Is Associated with Moderate to Severe Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy. The Journal of pediatrics 2013. If you are acidotic at … Continue reading →

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Intensive care for the extremely preterm infant requires intensive care, and working with Obstetricians

Posted on 23 June 2013 by Keith Barrington

Alleman BW, Bell EF, Li L, Dagle JM, Smith PB, Ambalavanan N, et al. Individual and Center-Level Factors Affecting Mortality Among Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants. Pediatrics. 2013. This paper from the NICHD network shows substantial variation in survival between … Continue reading →

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ECMO: not dead yet

Posted on 20 June 2013 by Keith Barrington

There is a sort of a quadruple entendre in the title of this post: ECMO still exists; ECMO is needed if you are ‘not yet dead’ and have a chance of surviving; ECMO decreases mortality if you need it; but, … Continue reading →

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