Tag Archives: mortality

How long is too long?

Posted on 11 September 2015 by Keith Barrington

When a baby is unexpectedly born without a heart beat, and resuscitation is initiated, the outcome may be a failed resuscitation. Even if everything is done correctly. If you are doing everything correctly, and the baby doesn’t respond right away, … Continue reading →

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The new AAP position statement concerning extremely preterm birth decision making. A great leap… sideways.

Posted on 8 September 2015 by Keith Barrington

To me, this new ‘clinical report’ was a major disappointment. Even though there are some good parts to this statement, there is one huge, major failing: there is absolutely no evidence that parents were consulted or included in the process of … Continue reading →

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Under Pressure….

Posted on 26 August 2015 by Keith Barrington

Colm O’Donnell once wrote an article with a whole line from a David Bowie song embedded in the article’s title (O’Donnell CPF. Turn and face the strange – ch..ch..ch..changes to neonatal resuscitation guidelines in the past decade. Journal of Paediatrics … Continue reading →

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Death In Simulation

Posted on 8 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

Our group at Sainte Justine has just published an article, now available on-line in Pediatrics. (Lizotte M-H, Latraverse V, Moussa A, Lachance C, Barrington K, Janvier A. Trainee Perspectives on Manikin Death During Mock Codes. Pediatrics. 2015) We had originally … Continue reading →

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Re-re-re-visited (delayed cord clamping of course)

Posted on 5 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

I received 2 comments about the last posting re: DCC. The way I set up this blog the comments aren’t necessarily very obvious, especially if you visit the home page rather than following a link to the individual posting. So I … Continue reading →

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Keep people like this away from the NICU

Posted on 4 June 2015 by Keith Barrington

After my novel-length post earlier, a quick rant. In the few weeks since the NICHD ‘before 24’ paper came out there have been a number of newspaper articles reporting the results, and responses to them. A report in the National … Continue reading →

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Should we resuscitate children?

Posted on 27 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

I am going to be deliberately provocative today… for a change. A very interesting study from Japan has reported the results of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children. Goto Y, et al. Decision tree model for predicting long-term outcomes in children with … Continue reading →

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What is a perfect baby?

Posted on 22 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

With the recent publication from the NICHD network concerning survival rates of the most immature infants, there has been a lot of discussion. Including a strange article in “the Daily Beast”, by Jeff Perlman. Why he would publish something there … Continue reading →

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A letter from a mother to neonatologists

Posted on 18 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

From the blogger Alison Epps, a mother of an extremely preterm boy, who writes at the blog 22w6d. Below the letter on her blog there are before and after photos of her son James at the age of 4 1/2. Dear NICU … Continue reading →

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Annie on the Radio

Posted on 11 May 2015 by Keith Barrington

Annie was interviewed live on air this morning on a CBC radio show called ‘The Current’. She was asked to discuss the NEJM publication from the Neonatal Research Network that I have been blogging about. I don’t know if this … Continue reading →

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