What's new in midwifery - 17th June 2020
Some recent things you may need to know...Current news‘Black mothers were already scared’: coronavirus home births (Guardian video, about experiences in Pennsylvania)Global healthMonitoring intrapartum fetal heart rates by mothers in labour in two public hospitals: an initiative to improve maternal and neonatal healthcare in LiberiaRelated blog postClinical effectivenessLabor dystocia (AHRQ)ResearchDoes low-dose aspirin initiated before 11 weeks ' gestation reduce the rate of preeclampsia? (AJOG)Early amniotomy after cervical ripening for induction of labor: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlle...
Source: Browsing - June 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
A health librarian at the theatre: The Madness of George III
It ' s been several weeks since I " went " to the theatre, but I have just watched the Nottingham Playhouse ' s production of this Alan Bennett play, on theNational Theatre Live YouTube channel.I saw the film (called The Madness of King George) some years back and I was aware of the idea that the King was not mad, but had porphyria. The clue was the blue urine, which none of the doctors (in the play) thought was important.But I had not realised that view has been questioned. There are several articles in the medical literature, many by Timothy Peters of the University of Birmingham (UK). It...
Source: Browsing - June 13, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: medical history psychiatry Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 10th June 2020
Some recent things you might need to know...COVID-19Complications and outcomes of SARS- CoV-2 in pregnancy: where and what is the evidence?ResearchOral fluconazole use in the first trimester and risk of congenital malformations: population based cohort study (BMJ)Strategies for optimising antenatal corticosteroid administration for women with anticipated preterm birth (Cochrane systematic review)Acknowledgements: McMaster Evidence Alerts. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
How to calculate the reproductive number, R0
This epidemiological concept is often mentioned in the general media and is discussedin this article in the Guardian, and we know that if it goes above one, that is a bad thing. But what is R0 and how do you calculate it? Here are some things that might help.Health Knowledge - this piece from their public health textbook discusses the concept in general, and other related concepts. The site was originally designed for people undertaking specialist public health training as public health specialist registrars.Public Health England -this blog post from May 2020 discusses how R numbers a...
Source: Browsing - June 8, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: epidemiology Source Type: blogs
Meeting as a church virtually (2)
We are also using Facebook Live when it is communion (first Sunday of the month). The minister is responsible for the creative side of all this, writing the service and sending printed copies and a small container of communion wine to church folk. The order of service goes onto the church website.Then at 1030 (service time for Hillsborough Tabernacle) and 245 (service time for Tapton Hill) the minister goes onto the Sheffield Congregational Churches ' Facebook page and we go live, with a family member holding the mobile phone to film and broadcast it live. When we finish the broadcast, the...
Source: Browsing - June 7, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
PICSO: Population, Intervention, Control, Setting, Outcome
Things likethis NICE manual talk aboutsetting, when formulating a search question, and there is the SPICE scheme, where S is the setting. But I am not sure I have seen a version of the PICO grid which includes setting.If there is one, it would be good to know about it and you can tell me in the comments.  But if not, I may have just invented it. But I can ' t claim the credit. My eye was caught bya Guardian article today about whether face masks work to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and my eye was particularly caught because the author is Professor Trisha Greenhalgh of Oxford Uni...
Source: Browsing - June 6, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: EBP literature searching Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: mental health and wellbeing
Last updated: 4th June 2020 at 2320 UK time.American Psychiatric Association Publishing - Resources for Psychiatrists and on Coping with the OutbreakCoronavirus and your wellbeing (MIND)Coronavirus: how to protect your mental health (BBC)I have posts covering other aspects of COVID-19. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - June 4, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 mental health NCOV Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 3rd June 2020
Some things you may need to know. Nothing last week as I was " on holiday " , so two weeks ' worth this time.COVID-19A systematic scoping review of COVID-19 during pregnancy and childbirth (International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology)ResearchProgression to type 2 diabetes in women with a known history of gestational diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis (BMJ)**Leicester authors**Comparative impact of pharmacological treatments for gestational diabetes on neonatal anthropometry independent of maternal glycaemic control: A systematic review and meta-analysis (PLoS Medicine)Maternal cardiovascular ri...
Source: Browsing - June 3, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Meeting as a church virtually (1)
Places of worship are doing lots of things online. Here is how things are being done, technically, at Hillsborough Tabernacle and Tapton Hill Congregational Churches in Sheffield.Our sons do the filming, I do the processing and uploading, and the Tabernacle website.I didn ' t know too much about this sort of thing before the lockdown, and that may show in my narrative below, which to some people might be stating the obvious! Sunday ReflectionsThese are filmed with a digital SLR, which I then plug into my Windows laptop with a USB cable, so I can copy the file across. The recordings are 5-10 minu...
Source: Browsing - May 28, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
Meeting as a church virtually
Places of worship are doing lots of things online. Here is how things are being done, technically, at Hillsborough Tabernacle and Tapton Hill Congregational Churches in Sheffield.Our sons do the filming, I do the processing and uploading, and the Tabernacle website.I didn ' t know too much about this sort of thing before the lockdown, and that may show in my narrative below, which to some people might be stating the obvious! Sunday ReflectionsThese are filmed with a digital SLR, which I then plug into my Windows laptop with a USB cable, so I can copy the file across. The recordings are 5-10 minu...
Source: Browsing - May 28, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
Detection dogs
There was an interview on BBC Breakfast last week with a detection dog, or, strictly, with someone fromMedical Detection Dogs, accompanied by a detection dog. Dogs have been used to " sniff out " malaria and Parkinson ' s, and there are investigations into whether they can be trained to detect COVID-19.There are details of that trial, which involves the University of Durham, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Medical Detection Dogs,on this Government webpage. So what is in the literature? A PubMed search for detection dog finds some papers, but also a lot about detecting thi...
Source: Browsing - May 24, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 20th May 2020
Some new things you might like to know...COVID-19COVID19 during pregnancy: a systematic review of reported cases (American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology)ResearchAnalgesic Efficacy and Adverse Effects of Meperidine in Managing Postoperative or Labor Pain: A Narrative Review of Randomized Controlled Trials(Pain Physician)Pelvic floor muscle training for preventing and treating urinary and faecal incontinence in antenatal and postnatal women. (Cochrane)Vaginal preparation with antiseptic solution before cesarean section for preventing postoperative infections. (Cochrane) Acknowledgements: McMaster Evidence Alerts (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - May 20, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Famous nurses (4): Betsi Cadwaladr
Part 4 of this series is somewhat overdue, since parts 1-3 were done in 2015! Investigating Florence Nightingale again for her bicentenary has brought Betsi Cadwaladr to my attention. Born in Bala, North Wales, in 1789, Cadwaladr went to the Crimea. There is more about her in the resources below.There are two spellings of each of her names (Betsy, as well as Betsi, and Cadwaladyr, as well as Cadwaladr). She is also known as Elizabeth Davis, one reason given being that some people could not pronounce her name...Atenstaedt and Beddoe will need a subscription, which your library may have...
Source: Browsing - May 13, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: nursing Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 13th May 2020
Some new things you might want to know...COVID-19Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and pregnancy: a systematic review (Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine)ResearchAspirin or heparin or both for improving pregnancy outcomes in women with persistent antiphospholipid antibodies and recurrent pregnancy loss (Cochrane review)Association of Gestational Age at Birth With Risk of Perinatal Mortality and Special Educational Need Among Twins (JAMA Pediatrics)Any problems accessing full text? If you have a librarian, ask them!Acknowledgements:McMaster Evidence Alerts (you can sign up with them to receive...
Source: Browsing - May 13, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Florence Nightingale 200
I wrote about Nightingale in 2015, when I met her in my elder son ' s AS level revision and discovered her connection with Sheffield. It is time to meet her again, as 12th May this year is the bicentenary of her birth.A quick search of Cinahl suggests the nursing journals are busy publishing commemorative articles, and findsa quarter page in the Danish nursing journal Sygeplejersken about a commemorative anniversary Nightingale Barbie doll (p. 9). I was intrigued by the subtitle of an article in Gastrointestinal Nursing by a lecturer at De Montfort University (also in Leicester) looking at her legacy ( " p...
Source: Browsing - May 11, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: nursing Source Type: blogs
