Maternity surveys 2022
Care Quality Commission -This survey aims to capture what people using maternity services in 2022 felt about the care they received while pregnant, during labour and delivery, and once at home in the weeks following the arrival of their baby. The survey of more than 20,900 women who gave birth in February 2022 shows fewer reporting positively about their experience of maternity care, with a decline in the number able to get help from staff when they needed it, compared to five years ago. However, many respondents were still positive about their interactions with staff.Survey resultsCare Quality Commission - press release (...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 12, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
Big Dairy Milks Congress for Baby Formula Tariffs
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithJanuary 11th isNational Milk Day and this year, the U.S. dairy industry has a lot to celebrate.While the 2022 baby formula crisis grappled the United States, the National Milk Producers Federation called on Congress toresistnew action. In November, the groupurged Congress to oppose any efforts to extend the tariff suspensions emergently granted to baby formula imports amidst the crisis. Unsurprisingly, Big Dairy succeeded —on January 1st, thetariffs returned on imports of infant formula meaning these imports are again subject to an effective tax of about 25 percent.To recap, the baby formula cri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 11, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
Top 5 Ways to Increase Your Milk Supply
Since we can’t measure breast milk intake the way we can formula, it is easy to be insecure about your milk supply. If you feel your milk supply is low, here are five suggestions on how to increase it:
Take care of yourself. Eat well and drink plenty of fluids. During nursing, try not to diet. You are still establishing your supply and need a minimum of 1800 calories each day while you are lactating. Fun fact: if you eat high quality foods and limit fats and sweets, you will usually lose weight more easily than a mother who is formula feeding.
Nurse frequently. Try to get in a minimum of 8 feedings in 24 hours, and mo...
Source: Cord Blood News - January 3, 2023 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: babies Health Mothers sex and pregnancy sexual health cord blood milksupply Source Type: blogs
The Mirror Test For Babies Reveals When The Self Emerges
To this day the 'mirror test' or 'rouge test' remains the best experiment yet developed for examining the emergence of self-concept in infants. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology Source Type: blogs
Robert Fantz: The Looking Chamber Experiment
Psychologist Robert Fantz investigated what babies really understand about the world with his looking chamber experiment. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 26, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology Source Type: blogs
A Change Of Heart: " For The Children "
Last night, I archived everything on the blog except " Why Pediatrics " . More and more, it ' s become a question rather than a statement of purpose. In the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic, where the entire US system shifted on its axis to shut down community Pediatrics services and " feed " children ' s hospitals (to free up resources for sick adults), the situation for those of us practicing inpatient Pediatrics (as " Pediatric Hospitalists " ) really went to hell. You could not find/beg a job in the community setting during the pandemic. Actually, jumping through the ABP ' s hoops to do a...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - December 24, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Solving Healthcare ’s Labor Problem May Mean a Change in Strategy
Discussions about the uncertain future of the industry’s labor force intensified in 2021, as hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers left the field. Analysts and experts once predicted that the full effects of this shortage would be felt by 2030, but it appears that day may now come even sooner. More recent estimates have the U.S. reaching a gap of up to 450,000 nurses alone by 2025 — and that remains true despite the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projection that healthcare will add over 2.5 million jobs in the coming decade, outpacing all other sectors.
To navigate the ongoing healthcare labor shortage, many ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Healthcare Labor Shortage Healthcare Staffing Labor Costs Maria Luoni Medical Staffing Per Diem Staffing RightSourcing Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: More selective plagiarism
2 Chronicles 1 borrows selectively from 1 Kings 3. Specifically, Solomon ' s vision at Gibeon appears in both. However, in the Book of Kings, before he makes the sacrifice at Gibeon, he " takes " Pharaoh ' s daughter. Then, in Kings, after the vision, we get the story of Solomon proposing to split the baby in half, which was claimed by two " harlots. " Here, instead, we have Solomon gathering up a lot of horses and other expensive stuff. I can only speculate about the reason for these omissions, although as I have said before the Chronicler seems to want to clean up David and Solomon ' s act. Solomon ' s 700 wives and 300 ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 14, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Top 8 Most Controversial Stories About Medical Innovations
I spend my days monitoring progress, analysing new trends, and learning about spectacular new initiatives. Needless to say: not just me, but the whole team of The Medical Futurist is fascinated by what we learn. And then sometimes there is a story that just melts the fuses at one or more team members – and our readers.
Below I picked 8 of our favourite controversial stories from – almost exclusively – this year. It’s important to note that controversial doesn’t equal bad/useless. Sometimes it’s just not widely accepted (yet) and so exotic that they can surely provide a unique talking point at a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF 3d printing AI artificial intelligence bioprinting digital health CRISPR designer baby designer babies robotics in healthcare assisted dying DIY blood draw DIY blood test medical innovation deepfake Source Type: blogs
Hush, Here Comes the Not ‐So‐Little Baby Tax
Gabriella Beaumont-SmithThe U.S. baby formula industry is in trouble. For most of 2022, parents faced bare shelves when looking for formula. Even in the last week,34 percent of households reported difficulty finding formula. What ’s more depressing, Reckitt Benckiser, an infant formula producer, expects low supplies topersist into the spring.While reports of problems began in August 2021, alarm bells didn ’t ring until theshutdown of a major U.S. plant in early 2022. The shutdown caused a massive supply shock and by June 2022, national out-of-stock levels of infant formulaexceeded90 percent. The crisis wasn ’t just b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 8, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Gabriella Beaumont-Smith Source Type: blogs
65 One Sided Relationship Quotes to Help You Find a Way Forward in Your Life
Being in a one sided relationship isn’t fun.
You’re there when they need something. A listening ear. A ride to the airport. Kindness and love when times are tough.
But when you need something then they don't help out the way you've done. They may not even answer the phone or listen when you're trying to tell them about the tough week you’ve had.
If you are in such a situation then I hope these 65 one sided relationship quotes will be helpful for you.
To bring you some comfort and make you see you’re not alone. And more importantly, to help you find a healthy way forward starting today.
And if you want even more se...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - December 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 6th December 2022
Some recent things you might need to know. Remember to critically appraise any articles detailed below - mention in this column is not a statement about the robustness of the research or systematic review.Article are open access (so, free to read) unless stated otherwise.Audit I might have mentioned these before, but just in case...National Neonatal Audit Programme annual summary report on 2021 data:Ninth MBRRACE Annual Report (of the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity)ResearchSARS-CoV-2 placentitis, stillbirth, and maternal COVID-19 vaccination: clinical –pathologic correlationsBalloon ca...
Source: Browsing - December 6, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Upon arrival to the emergency department, a senior emergency physician looked at the ECG and said " Nothing too exciting. "
This article fails to specify whether it was troponin I or T, but I contacted the institution and they used exclusively troponin I during that time period.Reference on Troponins: Xenogiannis I, Vemmou E, Nikolakopoulos I, et al. The impact of ST-segment elevation on the prognosis of patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. J Electrocardiol [Internet] 2022;Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2022.09.009Cardiology opinion: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (EF 30-35%)V Fib Cardiac arrestProlonged QTCNSTEMI (Smith comment: is it NSTEMI or is it Takotsubo? -- these are entirely different)Moderate sin...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 30, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
What anticipatory grief feels like [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “I experienced many deaths when I was a nurse, from babies, kids, young adults, the elderly, and my own family. It was always heartbreaking, but I found that staying with the dying and the family and supporting them in what little way I could
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What anticipatory grief feels like [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
It ’ s called crying and it ’ s normal
Doctors treat people in all types of situations. Life or death. Sometimes both. Babies die, children die, and teenagers die. Women die. Men die. Sometimes you even have the misfortune of delivering a stillborn. Everyone experiences death, but for doctors, it’s part of our daily norm. Day after day, for decades throughout their career, we
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It’s called crying and it’s normal originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 27, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jean Paul Brutus, MD Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
