Tag Archives: mortality

Time to abandon the Papile classification? (part 2)

Posted on 7 December 2017 by Keith Barrington

As I mentioned in the last post, the initial report of outcomes by Bassan and others showed that the infants with severity score 0, (unilateral haemorrhage without midline shift affecting one zone) had reasonably good outcomes, 7 of 8 had … Continue reading →

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Recent publications

Posted on 16 November 2017 by Keith Barrington

Even though the blog has been quiet recently, other academic output has continued… In the NICU we are often faced with babies with late- or early- onset sepsis. The worst cases develop shock, which carries a significant mortality; they may … Continue reading →

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The last word on delayed cord clamping in the preterm? part 3.

Posted on 10 November 2017 by Keith Barrington

Lo and behold. Fogarty M, et al. Delayed Versus Early Umbilical Cord Clamping for Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2017. Some of the authors of the APTS trial have performed an updated systematic review, … Continue reading →

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The last word on delayed cord clamping for preterms? Part 1.

Posted on 7 November 2017 by Keith Barrington

The APTS (Australian placental transfusion study) trial has just appeared on line. This was a high-quality multicenter, international RCT of immediate cord clamping (less than 10 seconds) compared to delayed clamping (60 seconds) for babies born less than 32 weeks … Continue reading →

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Guidelines to help parents who have lost one of twins

Posted on 5 November 2017 by Keith Barrington

Many readers of this blog will recognize the name of Nick Embleton as someone who has done a great deal of nutrition research, and research into the intestinal microbiome of very preterm infants. He also has a major interest in … Continue reading →

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Survival of extremely preterm babies in a national cohort, and a comparison of nations.

Posted on 24 February 2017 by Keith Barrington

As a follow up to my last post, a new article from Norway details the survival to one year of age, and the neonatal morbidities of babies born at 22 to 26 weeks gestation in the whole country in 2013-2014. … Continue reading →

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Improved survival and improved Bayley scores among infants born in the periviable period.

Posted on 21 February 2017 by Keith Barrington

If you were to report survival and other outcomes among infants with a very high risk of dying or having long-term impairments, why would you include babies for whom a decision was made to let them die? Let me put … Continue reading →

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Fluid restriction to prevent BPD?

Posted on 14 February 2017 by Keith Barrington

In response to my previous post, one of the comments was a question about fluid volumes in the first few days of life, and whether fluid and/or sodium intake was important for the development of BPD during the early neonatal … Continue reading →

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What outcomes matter to parents? A new publication

Posted on 1 November 2016 by Keith Barrington

This new publication of ours has been an interesting process, Annie Janvier and I wrote it in collaboration with other parent representatives, Barb Farlow, who we have collaborated with previously, a mother of a little girl who had trisomy 13, … Continue reading →

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Long term survival in trisomy 13 and 18

Posted on 19 August 2016 by Keith Barrington

After my previous post on this topic, John Lantos wrote a comment pointing out this recent publication, Nelson KE, et al. Survival and Surgical Interventions for Children With Trisomy 13 and 18. JAMA. 2016;316(4):420-8. It is a large regional cohort, identified from … Continue reading →

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