Tag Archives: Apnea

What dose of caffeine to use?

Posted on 9 September 2022 by Keith Barrington

The dose of caffeine that we used for the CAP trial was the dose that was being widely used at the time. It seemed to be a safe dose, that did not require serum concentration surveillance, but was not based … Continue reading →

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PAS 2018: the wrap-up.

Posted on 14 May 2018 by Keith Barrington

A general comment about these PAS 2018 blog posts. I think we should be very careful about changing practice based on an abstract. We should respect peer review, with all its limitations, and we should always consider new research in … Continue reading →

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Shake it up baby

Posted on 9 April 2018 by Keith Barrington

When babies have respiratory pauses, the usual initial intervention is tactile stimulation of some kind. Which leads to a few questions: does it work? how does it work (if it does)? what mode of stimulation is most effective? If you … Continue reading →

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An Oldie but a Goodie

Posted on 25 November 2015 by Keith Barrington

I discovered several months ago that one of my older presentations is very difficult to get on-line. It seems that at some point, when this article, Barrington K, Finer N. The natural history of the appearance of apnea of prematurity. Pediatr … Continue reading →

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Oxygen is good for you

Posted on 28 August 2015 by Keith Barrington

Of course you can have too much of a good thing, but you should also try and stay above the minimum. The COT trial investigators, led by Christian Poets, have published a secondary analysis of the results, examining in particular … Continue reading →

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How should we feed preterm babies?

Posted on 8 September 2014 by Keith Barrington

Two new interesting articles to address this important question. Corvaglia, L., et al. (2014). “Cardiorespiratory Events with Bolus versus Continuous Enteral Feeding in Healthy Preterm Infants.” J Pediatr. The authors evaluated the effects of bolus vs continuous tube feeding in … Continue reading →

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Apneas are bad for you (probably), this might be part of the reason

Posted on 1 April 2014 by Keith Barrington

I have published two articles that looked a the relationship between apneas and long term outcome. One was taken from pre-discharge recordings of very preterm babies. We compared the long term neurodevelopmental abilities of preterm babies 18 months later, and … Continue reading →

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Apneas are alarming

Posted on 1 June 2013 by Keith Barrington

Two peripherally related articles: Elder DE, Campbell AJ, Galletly D: Current definitions for neonatal apnoea: Are they evidence based? Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 2013. A review of the different available definitions for apnea, and the lack of an … Continue reading →

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