Tag Archives: long term outcomes

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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Predicting outcomes, but not before birth

Posted on 13 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

One very important article that I failed to blog about last year when it came out is this one (Ambalavanan N, Carlo WA, Tyson JE, Langer JC, Walsh MC, Parikh NA, Das A, Van Meurs KP, Shankaran S, Stoll BJ … Continue reading →

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Does gestational age matter?

Posted on 4 September 2013 by Keith Barrington

Taking a break from the SUPPORT brouhaha for a moment, here is a great systematic review from Greg Moore and colleagues in Ottawa. (Moore GP, Lemyre B, Barrowman N, Daboval T: Neurodevelopmental outcomes at 4 to 8 years of children … Continue reading →

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Susceptibility to Sepsis

Posted on 20 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

It looks like those Toll-like receptors may indeed be important. I included a review article in a previous Neonatal Updates, which was nice introduction to these transmembrane receptors that are important in immune responses. A new article suggests that variants … Continue reading →

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End of Life, at Birth

Posted on 19 August 2013 by Keith Barrington

An Op-Ed piece in the NY Times a couple of weeks ago had that title. I was rather disappointed by the piece, written by an experienced neonatologist; now I suppose for a piece written for the NY Times the fact … 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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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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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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Speech is developing even before the speech centers appear

Posted on 18 June 2013 by Keith Barrington

Someone who is more expert in this field than me could probably take apart that title, but the message of this article is that, even at 29 weeks gestation, , the preterm brain reacts differently to different phonemes (ba versus … Continue reading →

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