Tag Archives: long term outcomes

Long term outcomes after Very Extremely Preterm Delivery

Posted on 15 December 2013 by Keith Barrington

Another blog post suggested by a reader, this time from Jim Goodmar from San Diego. This study of neurological and developmental outcomes of babies born before 25 weeks is remarkable in a number of ways. (Herber-Jonat S, Streiftau S, Knauss … Continue reading →

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms; where should we go from here?

Posted on 19 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Do we really need a position statement? There is no position statement of the CPS about counselling parents when their child presents with meningococcal disease. There is no position statement for the child with serious brain trauma. A position statement … Continue reading →

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 6 Conflating Death and Disability

Posted on 11 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. This particular … Continue reading →

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Communication ability in persons with trisomy 18 and trisomy 13

Posted on 10 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

As a neonatologist there is much important pediatric literature that I do not follow. There is much that has relevance to what we do in the NICU, so much that no-one can keep up with it all. Many of us are … Continue reading →

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 5. Impairment, what does it mean?

Posted on 7 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading →

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 4. Selectively quoting the literature

Posted on 7 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading →

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 3. Misquoting the evidence.

Posted on 7 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading →

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Perpetuating Prejudice against Preterms: 1. Inappropriate simplistic rules are unethical.

Posted on 5 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

Towards the end of last year the Canadian Pediatric Society published a new ‘position statement’. These are official proclamations of the society, supposedly based on the best available evidence to guide practice, and which become de facto standards of care. … Continue reading →

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Preterm Babies are Human Beings Too

Posted on 5 November 2013 by Keith Barrington

The Canadian Medical Association Journal has just published a Commentary by 2 neonatologists from the USA. Batton D, Batton B: Advocating for equality for preterm infants. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2013. The commentary is in response to the CPS recent … Continue reading →

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Pain hurts

Posted on 21 October 2013 by Keith Barrington

In 2010 a paper published in the Lancet called into question the use of sucrose as an analgesic for heelsticks. (I will use the US term as I think most people understand that it refers to lancing the heel of … Continue reading →

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