Tag Archives: long term outcomes

Executive Function?

Posted on 29 April 2014 by Keith Barrington

Raju TNK, Mercer BM, Burchfield DJ, Joseph GF. Periviable birth: executive summary of a Joint Workshop by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American College … Continue reading →

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Retraction of a systematic review

Posted on 28 April 2014 by Keith Barrington

Exactly when should an article be retracted? That is not so easy a question to answer, fraud and significant data or image manipulation are one fairly obvious group of reasons. Making errors and/or poor research design are more tricky. When … Continue reading →

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More from SUPPORT, not research governance and consent this time!

Posted on 21 April 2014 by Keith Barrington

One of the difficulties in performing neonatal research is how to determine the most clinically appropriate outcomes. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is often used as a dichotomous outcome variable, partly to facilitate the design of research, including combining it with other competing outcomes, … Continue reading →

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Single baby rooms?

Posted on 8 April 2014 by Keith Barrington

Terrie Inder and her colleagues have put the cat among the pigeons (as we say in England, I guess we are not keen on pigeons). Her (non-randomized) study suggests that babies who were treated in single rooms had poorer language skills … Continue reading →

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Do preterm babies need their thyroid?

Posted on 7 April 2014 by Keith Barrington

Now I am very confused. I thought I knew that many very preterm babies had low serum thyroxine levels (this study confirms that). It seems to be a variant of sick euthyroid syndrome, levels tend to fall for about the … 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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On the radio

Posted on 14 March 2014 by Keith Barrington

I was interviewed for the excellent Radio-Canada program on science, known as ‘les années lumières’ recently. The subject was about whether breast feeding is really best for babies. The reason for them doing the story was a recent publication by … Continue reading →

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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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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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Communicating with parents, and decision making for the extremely immature infant

Posted on 28 January 2014 by Keith Barrington

The other two articles that I mentioned in the last post, from the new issue of Seminars in Perinatology, were written to discuss a framework for decision making for the extremely immature infant. (Dupont-Thibodeau A, Barrington KJ, Farlow B, Janvier … Continue reading →

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