Neil McIntosh (paediatrician) explained

Neil McIntosh (born 1942) is a British and Scottish paediatrician and neonatologist who was most notable for being the leading writer of a pivotal article that defined standards of ethical behaviour in paediatrics, including withdrawal of newborn intensive care.^[1] McIntosh is emeritus professor of Neonatology and Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh.^[2] During McIntosh's career he has researched mineral metabolism in preterm infants, computerised acquisition of physiological data in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing.

Life

McIntosh took his postgraduate clinical training in University College Hospital, London in 1968.^[3] Mcintosh was Senior Registrar in Paediatrics at University College Hospital, London, from 1972 to 1977.^[2] In 1978 McIntosh was appointed as a senior lecturer and consultant paediatric neonatologist at St George's Hospital, a position he held until 1987.^[2] In 1987 he was elected to the Edward Clarke Chair of Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh,^[3] a position McIntosh held until 2007.^[4]

Bibliography

Articles

Some of the most important papers that McIntosh co-wrote:

• Best . Nicky . Ashby . Deborah . Dunstan . Frank . Foreman . David . McIntosh . Neil . A Bayesian approach to complex clinical diagnoses: a case-study in child abuse . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society) . January 2013 . 176 . 1 . 53–96 . 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01050.x. free .
• McIntosh . N. . Pechtl . I.C. . Harris . C.L. . Kavanagh . D. . Barlow . P.N.B. . A mutant version of factor H that could block the activity of wild-type factor H – Implications for atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome . Molecular Immunology . August 2011 . 48 . 14 . 1710 . 10.1016/j.molimm.2011.06.360.
• Modi . Neena . McIntosh . Neil . The effect of the neonatal Continuous Negative Extrathoracic Pressure (CNEP) trial enquiries on research in the UK: Table 1 . Archives of Disease in Childhood . June 2011 . 96 . 6 . 500–504 . 10.1136/adc.2010.188243.
• Meulen . Marian Van Der . Logie . Robert H. . Freer . Yvonne . Sykes . Cindy . Mcintosh . Neil . Hunter . Jim . When a graph is poorer than 100 words: A comparison of computerised natural language generation, human generated descriptions and graphical displays in neonatal intensive care . Applied Cognitive Psychology . 1 Jan 2010 . 24 . 1 . 77–89 . 10.1002/acp.v24:1.
• Kidd . Susan . Midgley . Paula . Lone . Nazir . Michael Wallace . A. . Nicol . Mary . Smith . John . McIntosh . Neil . A re-investigation of saliva collection procedures that highlights the risk of potential positive interference in cortisol immunoassay . Steroids . August 2009 . 74 . 8 . 666–668 . 10.1016/j.steroids.2009.02.009. 19463688 .
• Becher . J C . The Scottish perinatal neuropathology study: clinicopathological correlation in early neonatal deaths . Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition . 1 September 2004 . 89 . 5 . F399–F407 . 10.1136/adc.2003.037606. 15321957 . 1721762 .
• Becher . J-C . The distribution of apolipoprotein E alleles in Scottish perinatal deaths . Journal of Medical Genetics . 9 September 2005 . 43 . 5 . 414–418 . 10.1136/jmg.2005.033936. 16183800 . 2564516 .
• Boyle . E M . Freer . Y . Khan-Orakzai . Z . Watkinson . M . Wright . E . Ainsworth . J R . McIntosh . N . Sucrose and non-nutritive sucking for the relief of pain in screening for retinopathy of prematurity: a randomised controlled trial . Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition . 13 October 2005 . 91 . 3 . F166–F168 . 10.1136/adc.2005.087668. 16428355 . 2672697 .
• Boyle . Elaine M. . Freer . Yvonne . Wong . Mae C. . McIntosh . Neil . Anand . K. J.S. . Assessment of persistent pain or distress and adequacy of analgesia in preterm ventilated infants . Pain . September 2006 . 124 . 1 . 87–91 . 10.1016/j.pain.2006.03.019.
• McIntosh . N. . Mok . J. Y.Q. . Margerison . A. . Epidemiology of Oronasal Hemorrhage in the First 2 Years of Life: Implications for Child Protection . Pediatrics . 24 September 2007 . 120 . 5 . 1074–1078 . 10.1542/peds.2007-2097.
• Williams . Christopher K. I. . Quinn . John . McIntosh . Neil . Factorial Switching Kalman Filters for Condition Monitoring in Neonatal Intensive Care . Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems . January 2005 . 12 April 2019.

Books

In addition to collaborating in writing a large number of articles, McIntosh also wrote the following books:

• Book: McIntosh . Neil . Donn . Steven M. . Sinha . Sunil K. . Manual of neonatal respiratory care . 2006 . Springer . 978-0-323-03176-9 . 3rd . registration .

Notes and References

1. McIntosh . Neil . Ethical principles of research with children . Current Paediatrics . November 2004 . 14 . 6 . 489–494 . 10.1016/j.cupe.2004.07.008.
2. Book: Christie . D A . E M . Tansey . ORIGINS OF NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE IN THE UK . April 2001 . The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine . London, Note 125 . 8 . https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/2778/TANSEYOriginsofNeonatal2001FINAL.pdf?sequence=2 . 3 April 2019 . pdf . Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine. 9.
3. Web site: UK Staff and Volunteers . Maternal & Child health Advocacy International . 3 April 2019 . Scotland.
4. Web site: Emeritus Professor Neil McIntosh . RCPCH . Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health . 12 April 2019.