What's new in midwifery - 26th April 2023
A collection of new things that might be useful to know about:NICEdraft guidance on Intrapartum care for healthy women and babies, out for consultation, closing 6th June 2023. Expected to be published in September. Umbrella review of interventions to reduce late onset sepsis in neonates (open access).Medscape report of a trial running in Southampton of remote testing technology for gestational diabetes mellitus.Guardian report of a woman who miscarried after 9 weeks being fined for claiming free prescriptions. This made me aware of the maternity exemption certificate that midwives can ...
Source: Browsing - April 26, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
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Pantheon IIWhen I was a boy it didn ’t take long before I was Eye rolling away from the holy rollers,The stern prophets of the One True GodDabbled uneasily for a while as a nihilist atheistSoftened into a mildly antagonistic agnosticBefore settling into a comfortableMiddle aged disengagement:Let me just live this stupid life, OK?But it never goes awayThose nagging doubtsHow do you ever know for sure?So you hope for detenteA gentleman ' s agreementGive me a little spaceBut don ' t forget me entirelyIt gets all dysfunctionalAs deeply woven relationships tendNo one god could be Everything we needAnd, frankly...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - April 22, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Ode to a Smoked Trout Lyonnaise
Moving to Philly and being retired means I get to visit Valley Green as often as I want. So, last week I met Susan for lunch at Brunos and a post-prandial walk along Forbidden Drive. There, we encountered a battalion of rubber-booted fisherman standing in the stream and parade of pickups and cars following a small tanker truck along the path.
Yes folks, it was trout-stocking day on the Wissahickon.
Which got me remembering the time Lou caught some gorgeous trout in the Loyalsock River, which we brined and smoked on the Weber in the back yard at our cottage. Gotta’ get Lou back up to the mountains this ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - April 21, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Fish Salads bacon lyonnaise salade Smoked trout Valley Green Wissahickon Source Type: blogs
Understanding and supporting mental health in infancy and early childhood: a toolkit to support local action in the UK
Unicef UK -This resource aims to support service leaders, commissioners and policy teams to develop a whole-system approach to support the mental health of babies and young children, and to enable them to develop the capacities to be mentally healthy throughout their lives. Evidence shows that the mental health needs of babies and young children – which present differently than in older children and young people – are not well understood and often overlooked. This toolkit acknowledges that it can be harder for professionals to work together to promote and protect mental health at this life stage, as understanding varie...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 13th April 2023
I know, it is not long since the last set of posts. I am (as you can guess) a bit behind. Here are some more recent things you might want to know. All sorts of things in one post this time.NewsAddressing Inequities to IMPROVE Maternal Health for All, from the director of the National Library of Medicine, for Black Maternal Health Week in the USA.NICE guidanceGenedrive MT-RNR1 ID Kit for detecting a genetic variant to guide antibiotic use and prevent hearing loss in babies: early value assessment, HTE6, 30th March 2023.ReportsNHS Preceptorship for Midwifery - , March 2023. This is the ...
Source: Browsing - April 13, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - in the news - 12th April 2023
Some recent news items, with links to the original research or report where relevant.Guardian report of astudy published in PLoS Medicine about third ultrasound scans reducing the number of breech births.Health Education England report of the use of virtual reality in teaching about perinatal mental health. Report of a baby in Nuneaton who received phototherapy for neonatal jaundice.NHS Ombudsman report into maternity services,reported in the Guardian. A report into maternal and baby safety at University Hospitals Birmingham, Guardian comment piece about pain relief in childbirth, which links to a BMJ ...
Source: Browsing - April 12, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Transforming birth: How advocacy and sharing stories can shape policy and empower families
Musical genius and mogul Rihanna recently graced the Oscars stage for her second performance after the birth of her son, with a baby bump indicating her second pregnancy. She described her first birth as “blessed” and “beautiful.” While many expecting parents long to describe their birthing process similarly, there are realities within the medical system
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Transforming birth: How advocacy and sharing stories can shape policy and empower families originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tiffani Marie, PhD Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Balance Quotes: 76 Powerful Phrases to Help You Find Happiness and Inner Peace
Finding a balance in your life can often be hard. But it is also one of the keys to a happier and more peaceful life.
Because without a good balance between work and your personal life, between thought and taking action and between structure and taking a chance life can become a confusing and stressful mess.
So in today’s post I’d like to share 76 of the best and most helpful quotes about balance.
To help you to recognize more easily where you're unbalanced in your life and how you can make a change with that for your happiness and fulfillment.
And if you want more helpful and timeless inspiration then check out this ...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Being Used Quotes: 87 Relatable and Powerful Phrases to Empower You
When you discover that you’ve taken advantage off it can come as a shock. It can hurt a lot.
No matter if it’s at work, in school, in a romantic relationship or with a friend or family member.
It can be hard to move on. To know what to think about people and to trust again.
In today’s post I’d like to explore this situation that all of us unfortunately wind up in sooner or later. And what you can do to move on from it a healthy way.
This is 87 of the most relatable and powerful being used quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here to help you both better understand the situation you’re in and then move forward t...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services
NHS England - This plan sets out how the NHS will make maternity and neonatal care safer, more personalised, and more equitable for women, babies, and families. For the next three years, services are asked to concentrate on four themes: listening to and working with women and families, with compassion; growing, retaining, and supporting our workforce; developing and sustaining a culture of safety, learning, and support; and standards and structures that underpin safer, more personalised, and more equitable care.Delivery planMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
Justine Siegemundin
Justine Siegemund (1636-1705), midwife,was the Google Doodle for today, 28th March 2023. When young, she was misdiagnosed as pregnant when in fact she had a prolapsed uterus, and her experiences led her to train and practice as a midwife. She was Court Midwife in Berlin, in which post she delivered royal babies, and was invited to write a training manual for other midwives, the first medical book in German to be written by a woman, published in 1690. Searches in Cinahl and PubMed with variations of her name (Siegemundin, and different spellings of her first name) find just a handful of arti...
Source: Browsing - March 28, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
From physician to patient: one doctor ’ s journey to finding purpose after a devastating injury
December 20, 2012, started like any other day as an OB-GYN when I was called to do a precipitous delivery. I immediately saw that the baby’s heart rate was dangerously low, and I knew I had to act quickly. Several nurses helped me maintain the patient’s position to get a vacuum on the baby’s crowning
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From physician to patient: one doctor’s journey to finding purpose after a devastating injury originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Stephanie Pearson, MD Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Death in Childbirth
I taught a course last year in global maternal mortality so I have some idea of what I ' m talking about here. Childbirth is dangerous for women because, for one thing, thanks to evolution giving us big brains, the baby ' s head is too big for the birth canal. However, there are other complications of pregnancy that can occur. In Europe in the 19th Century, as it became common for women to give birth in hospitals, infectious disease killed a lot of mothers, thanks to the doctors transferring pathogens on their unwashed hands and unsterile instruments. Many a family was bereaved by maternal death, but it has become rare in ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 13th 2023
In this study, we report the extensive and progressive accumulation of misfolded proteins during natural aging/senescence in different models, in the absence of disease. We coined the term age-ggregates to refer to this subset of proteins. Our findings demonstrate that age-ggregates exhibit the main characteristics of misfolded protein aggregates implicated in PMDs, including insolubility in detergents, protease-resistance, and staining with dyes specific for misfolded aggregates. Misfolded protein aggregates with these characteristics are thought to be implicated in some of today most prevalent diseases, including Alzheim...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Rising Nursing Shortages are Causing a Nationwide Healthcare Crisis – How Using a Well-Designed Mobile Employment App Can Help
The following is a guest article by Suzanne Arroyo, Senior Content Strategist, and Christopher Ryan, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Avionté.
With large-scale nursing strikes happening across the nation, one thing is for certain: nurses feel overworked. The global pandemic has only amplified a growing problem – there aren’t enough RNs to care for a continuous rise in patients.
And the situation is intensifying. By 2030, one million nurses are expected to retire. The healthcare system will continue to be put under pressure by an aging nursing workforce, increased turnover, and a maturing baby boomer population ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Administrative Stress Avionté Burn Out Christopher Ryan Healthcare Hiring Healthcare HR Healthcare Staffing Healthcare Workforce Hiring Manag Source Type: blogs
