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[edit]
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[edit]
Articles[edit]
Some of the most important papers that McIntosh co-wrote:
- Best, Nicky; Ashby, Deborah; Dunstan, Frank; Foreman, David; McIntosh, Neil (January 2013). "A Bayesian approach to complex clinical diagnoses: a case-study in child abuse". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society). 176 (1): 53–96. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01050.x.
- McIntosh, N.; Pechtl, I.C.; Harris, C.L.; Kavanagh, D.; Barlow, P.N.B. (August 2011). "A mutant version of factor H that could block the activity of wild-type factor H – Implications for atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome". Molecular Immunology. 48 (14): 1710. doi:10.1016/j.molimm.2011.06.360.
- Modi, Neena; McIntosh, Neil (June 2011). "The effect of the neonatal Continuous Negative Extrathoracic Pressure (CNEP) trial enquiries on research in the UK: Table 1". Archives of Disease in Childhood. 96 (6): 500–504. doi:10.1136/adc.2010.188243.
- Meulen, Marian Van Der; Logie, Robert H.; Freer, Yvonne; Sykes, Cindy; Mcintosh, Neil; Hunter, Jim (1 January 2010). "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. 24 (1): 77–89. doi:10.1002/acp.v24:1.
- Kidd, Susan; Midgley, Paula; Lone, Nazir; Michael Wallace, A.; Nicol, Mary; Smith, John; McIntosh, Neil (August 2009). "A re-investigation of saliva collection procedures that highlights the risk of potential positive interference in cortisol immunoassay". Steroids. 74 (8): 666–668. doi:10.1016/j.steroids.2009.02.009. PMID 19463688.
- Becher, J C (1 September 2004). "The Scottish perinatal neuropathology study: clinicopathological correlation in early neonatal deaths". Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 89 (5): F399–F407. doi:10.1136/adc.2003.037606. PMC 1721762. PMID 15321957.
- Becher, J-C (9 September 2005). "The distribution of apolipoprotein E alleles in Scottish perinatal deaths". Journal of Medical Genetics. 43 (5): 414–418. doi:10.1136/jmg.2005.033936. PMC 2564516. PMID 16183800.
- Boyle, E M; Freer, Y; Khan-Orakzai, Z; Watkinson, M; Wright, E; Ainsworth, J R; McIntosh, N (13 October 2005). "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. 91 (3): F166–F168. doi:10.1136/adc.2005.087668. PMC 2672697. PMID 16428355.
- Boyle, Elaine M.; Freer, Yvonne; Wong, Mae C.; McIntosh, Neil; Anand, K. J.S. (September 2006). "Assessment of persistent pain or distress and adequacy of analgesia in preterm ventilated infants". Pain. 124 (1): 87–91. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2006.03.019.
- McIntosh, N.; Mok, J. Y.Q.; Margerison, A. (24 September 2007). "Epidemiology of Oronasal Hemorrhage in the First 2 Years of Life: Implications for Child Protection". Pediatrics. 120 (5): 1074–1078. doi:10.1542/peds.2007-2097.
- Williams, Christopher K. I.; Quinn, John; McIntosh, Neil (January 2005). "Factorial Switching Kalman Filters for Condition Monitoring in Neonatal Intensive Care" (PDF). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
Books[edit]
In addition to collaborating in writing a large number of articles, McIntosh also wrote the following books:
- McIntosh, Neil (2006). Donn, Steven M.; Sinha, Sunil K. (eds.). Manual of neonatal respiratory care (3rd ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-0-323-03176-9.
References[edit]
- ^ McIntosh, Neil (November 2004). "Ethical principles of research with children". Current Paediatrics. 14 (6): 489–494. doi:10.1016/j.cupe.2004.07.008.
- ^ a b c Christie, D A; E M, Tansey (April 2001). "Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine" (pdf). ORIGINS OF NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE IN THE UK. Vol. 9. London, Note 125: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. p. 8. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ a b "UK Staff and Volunteers". Maternal & Child health Advocacy International. Scotland. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
- ^ "Emeritus Professor Neil McIntosh". RCPCH. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Retrieved 12 April 2019.