Comments on the Past and Predictions on the Future of Neonatal Research : Consortia , Randomized Cluster Trials , Brain Care Centres and Xenon

Jerold F. Lucey

doi:10.7707/hmj.v5i3.183

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Comments on the Past and Predictions on the Future of Neonatal Research : Consortia , Randomized Cluster Trials , Brain Care Centres and Xenon

Authors:

Jerold F. Lucey

Publisher:

Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences

Main Topics:

Medicine

Journal:

Hamdan Medical Journal 2012 vol.5 Issue 3, pp.245-247

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2012

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

47539

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Tri-Annual

eISSN:

2227247X

pISSN:

22272437

DOI:

10.7707/hmj.v5i3.183

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Abstract:

 I will discuss the background of how ideas for research projects evolve. Thisis a topic that researchers rarely explain. It is obviously very important.Unfortunately, editors rarely, if ever, request that such material be included inpublications. My friend, Dr Mary Ellen Avery, Professor at Harvard University,suggested the subject to me and intended to write such an article herself.Unfortunately, she never did. I will discuss the birth of three good ideas Ihave had over a long career in neonatology, from 1952 to 2011! These werephototherapy, the Vermont Oxford Network and helping to organize large,international randomized control trials of xenon. I am now 85 years old, longpast the age you are supposed to have ‘hot’ ideas, but I think I have importantideas about the future. It is my belief that brain care, brain cooling plus someother agents are the future. Proving this, however, will take reorganizationof our current ways of carrying out clinical research. It is my personal belief,based on the basic research to date, that xenon gas is likely to be successful.To prove this ‘idea’, our field needs to reorganize into large consortia. Itwill probably take a decade or longer to prove this hypothesis by carryingout the necessary, very large, randomized trials. We need to encourageneonatologists to unite and work together on new advances.

Article Details

Comments on the Past and Predictions on the Future of Neonatal Research : Consortia , Randomized Cluster Trials , Brain Care Centres and Xenon

Authors:

Jerold F. Lucey

Publisher:

Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences

Main Topics:

Medicine

Journal:

Hamdan Medical Journal 2012 vol.5 Issue 3, pp.245-247

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2012

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

47539

Frequency:

Tri-Annual

eISSN:

2227247X

pISSN:

22272437

DOI:

10.7707/hmj.v5i3.183

Descriptors:

NEWBORNS

BIRTH

MEDICAL CARE

BRAIN

THERAPY

MEDICAL RESEARCH

Issues

Article Details

Comments on the Past and Predictions on the Future of Neonatal Research : Consortia , Randomized Cluster Trials , Brain Care Centres and Xenon

Authors: Jerold F. Lucey

Publisher: Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences

Main Topics: Medicine

Journal: Hamdan Medical Journal 2012 vol.5 Issue 3, pp.245-247

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 12/2012

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 47539

Frequency: Tri-Annual

eISSN: 2227247X

pISSN: 22272437

DOI: 10.7707/hmj.v5i3.183

Descriptors:

NEWBORNS

BIRTH

MEDICAL CARE

BRAIN

THERAPY

MEDICAL RESEARCH

Issues

Authors:

Jerold F. Lucey

Publisher:

Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences

Main Topics:

Medicine

Journal:

Hamdan Medical Journal 2012 vol.5 Issue 3, pp.245-247

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

12/2012

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

47539

Frequency:

Tri-Annual

eISSN:

2227247X

pISSN:

22272437

DOI:

10.7707/hmj.v5i3.183