Tag Archives: Ethics

How to show you don’t understand research in critical patients

Posted on 16 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

To continue with my diatribe about the OHRP decision concerning the SUPPORT trial: At one point in the document sent to the University of Alabama, the OHRP quote an editorial by Jay Greenspan: ‘…Although maintaining ranges of hemoglobin oxygen saturation … Continue reading →

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Now we will have to know the results of our research before we start the study

Posted on 16 April 2013 by Keith Barrington

The DHHS Office for Human Research Protections has just issued a ridiculous ruling. According to them the consent forms for SUPPORT were not sufficiently clear about risks of blindness in the higher oxygen group, and the risks of death in … Continue reading →

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Losing a twin

Posted on 13 March 2013 by Keith Barrington

Vasilescu C, Garel M, Caeymaex L: [experience of parents after the loss of a newborn twin in the nicu: A qualitative study 3 years after the death.]. Archives de pediatrie. 2013(0). This is a nice qualitative study, with a reasonable … Continue reading →

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Are babies and children so different?

Posted on 24 January 2013 by Keith Barrington

Matteo Fontana and his collaborators have just published an interesting paper evaluating modes of death in the PICU and NICU at my hospital, Annie Janvier is, of course, the senior author (Fontana MS, Farrell C, Gauvin F, Lacroix J, Janvier … Continue reading →

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Is the glass 81% full or 19% empty?

Posted on 17 December 2012 by Keith Barrington

The new Epicure 2 data show encouraging trends in outcomes in the UK and Ireland for extremely preterm babies. Survival rates have improved significantly over the whole of the British Isles, Here for example is one of the figures from … Continue reading →

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One Babe at a Time: ART and a multiplicity of multiples

Posted on 7 December 2012 by Keith Barrington

I have just written a review article which is in the submission revision process for a journal that shall remain nameless (I don’t know why, but that is the tradition, you don’t say which journal, until it gets accepted) It … Continue reading →

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The Politics of Probiotics

Posted on 15 November 2012 by Keith Barrington

Annie Janvier and John Lantos and I have just published a ‘different view’ article in Acta Paediatrica, which has just appeared on-line. For various reasons we were asked to remove the references, so I list the references that we based … Continue reading →

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Saving Babies’ Lives, for Pennies a day.

Posted on 8 October 2012 by Keith Barrington

I am talking about Canada, not the third world! Probiotics are cheap and reduce mortality. Florababy(TM) costs about $25 per 60 gram tub. One tub is enough for 120 days of prophylaxis, that is enough for the entire hospitalization of … Continue reading →

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Who benefits from whole genome sequencing in the NICU? Who suffers?

Posted on 7 October 2012 by Keith Barrington

Annie and I recently published a letter to the editor of Pediatrics and Child Health about the ethical implications of using Complete Genome Hybridization (CGH) as the default test for possibly genetically determined disorders in pediatrics. CGH is a very … Continue reading →

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A life worth living: myelomeningocele.

Posted on 10 September 2012 by Keith Barrington

Do handicapped persons’ lives have value? Even asking that question is offensive, at least to me, and I just asked it! It seems to me that much of the focus of programs of antenatal diagnosis is based on the premise … Continue reading →

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