What's new in midwifery - 6th May 2020
Some recent things you might need to know about...COVID-19Maternal and perinatal outcomes with COVID-19: a systematic review of 108 pregnancies (Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica) (Open access)StatisticsChild and Maternal Health (Public Health England)A range of data including mental health in pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, anda profile of data relating to conception and birth. Data can be searched by geographical areaMaternity services monthly statistics, January 2020 (NHS Digital)BooksGuardian Book clinic: Which novels or memoirs will help prepare me for motherhood?Acknowledgemen...
Source: Browsing - May 6, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
A health librarian and music: Johann Sebastian Bach
I discovered Bach ' s organ music as a student, listening on the radio to BBC Radio 3 ' s Choral Evensong (that was the sort of student life I led). I knew thefamous one but not the rest. I liked the way the bass often plays the tune, but also that sometimes other parts of the register do. I liked the patterns as the tune moved up and down the scale and the way that several patterns weave in and out of each other (all those are non-technical descriptions, of course!). That love of Bach ' s organ music has continued and while working at home in these locked down times, I sometimes list...
Source: Browsing - May 5, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: music Source Type: blogs
A health librarian at the theatre: Frankenstein
This is thelatest performance from National Theatre Live. I mentioned in an earlier post my attitude to English Literature at school, so I was very late reading the novel, written in 1818 when Mary Shelley and friends were competing with each other to write a story.Like all stories, I guess, it is about all sorts of things. In the theatre production I could see things about education of people not like the educators, education of women, class, our view of those different from ourselves. About men ' s view of the place of women (or one woman ' s view of that, from her own experience and background, I ...
Source: Browsing - May 2, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: medicine in fiction Source Type: blogs
A health librarian at the theatre: Twelfth Night
Part of our lockdown routine is to watch theNational Theatre Live performances on YouTube, and last week it was a recording of a performance of Shakespeare ' s Twelfth Night.I managed to get through school without reading any Shakespeare, aided by the fact that I dropped English as fast as I could after O levels (that ' s what GCSEs used to be, in case you are not sure!)I came round in the end to the idea of English literature, and did an A level as an adult. I enjoyed that a lot, so the lesson there is not to give up completely on a subject! For A level, I read Hamlet, and one theme in that is that of madness.And it...
Source: Browsing - April 30, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: medicine in fiction Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 30th April 2020
Updated 30th April after posting (sorry)Some new things that you may need to know... ResearchEffects of psychoeducation on the mental health and relationships of pregnant couples: A systemic review and meta-analysis. (International Journal of Nursing Studies)Outcome of Coronavirus spectrum infections (SARS, MERS, COVID 1 -19) during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis (American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology MFM)Screening for Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnant Adolescents and Women to Prevent Preterm Delivery: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services...
Source: Browsing - April 30, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: global aspects
I shall continue to collect resources of use to " my " students and to librarian colleagues in the UK.But coronavirus is having an impact all over the world and in some countries is raising issues that are not so much of an issue in the UK. So on this post I shall collect resources that look at the impact of the pandemic on lower and middle income countries and on the world as a whole. To start with here are two:Global Justice podcasts - some are about coronavirus.TheNew Humanitarian ' s Coronavirus coverage includes discussion of the impact on aid and migration, and a newsletter.I will add other...
Source: Browsing - April 24, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 NCOV Source Type: blogs
Reading Albert Camus' The Plague in today's world
Here are two new articles in the medical journals about this novel, the subject of an earlier post. They both apply Camus ' story to this present situation.Narrative medicine: thinking with stories during The Plague, by Barend Florijn of the Leiden University Medical Centre and published in the American Journal of Medicine. Florijn talks about the insights that patients ' stories give, using the stories of characters in Camus ' novel.Albert Camus ’ ‘The COVID-19 Plague’ Revisited, by Carlos Franco-Paredes of the Anschutz Medical Center, University of Colorado and published in Clinical Infectious Dise...
Source: Browsing - April 24, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 22nd April 2020
Some new things to know about...ResearchEffect of delayed cord clamping on umbilical blood gas values in term newborns: a systematic review. (Obstetrics and Gynecology)Effects of maternal smoking on body size and proportions at birth: a register-based cohort study of 1.4 million births (BMJ Open)Ask your librarian for advice if you can ' t see full text.Acknowledgements: Science X Newsletter, Evidence Alerts (McMaster) (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - April 22, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
A health librarian at the theatre: Jane Eyre
As part of our lockdown routine we are enjoying theNational Theatre Live on YouTube. Each week there is a recording of a National Theatre production. This week it was Treasure Island, and last week Jane Eyre. Mr Rochester is about to marry Jane Eyre, when it is made known that he is already married and Mrs Rochester is the mysterious unseen character who lives in the attic and who might be responsible for various strange goings on in the house.So why is she hidden away? What has happened to her? Is she ill?As one does as a medical librarian, I looked in PubMed and found a paper publis...
Source: Browsing - April 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Huntington disease medicine in fiction Source Type: blogs
A medical librarian at the theatre: Jane Eyre
As part of our lockdown routine we are enjoying theNational Theatre Live on YouTube. Each week there is a recording of a National Theatre production. This week it was Treasure Island, and last week Jane Eyre. Mr Rochester is about to marry Jane Eyre, when it is made known that he is already married and Mrs Rochester is the mysterious unseen character who lives in the attic and who might be responsible for various strange goings on in the house.So why is she hidden away? What has happened to her? Is she ill?As one does as a medical librarian, I looked in PubMed and found a paper publis...
Source: Browsing - April 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Huntingdon disease medicine in fiction Source Type: blogs
Jane Eyre
As part of our lockdown routine we are enjoying theNational Theatre Live on YouTube. Each week there is a recording of a National Theatre production. This week it was Treasure Island, and last week Jane Eyre. Mr Rochester is about to marry Jane Eyre, when it is made known that he is already married and Mrs Rochester is the mysterious unseen character who lives in the attic and who might be responsible for various strange goings on in the house.So why is she hidden away? What has happened to her? Is she ill?As one does as a medical librarian, I looked in PubMed and found a paper publis...
Source: Browsing - April 18, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Huntingdon disease medicine in fiction Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 15th April 2020
Things you might want to know about...ResearchThe cost-effectiveness of progesterone in preventing miscarriages in women with early pregnancy bleeding: an economic evaluation based on the PRISM trial (BJOG)Antibiotic prophylaxis for operative vaginal delivery (Cochrane review)Umbilical cord milking in preterm infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Archives of Diseases in Childhood)Telehealth Interventions to Improve Obstetric and Gynecologic Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review (Obstetrics and Gynecology)Includes discussion related to smoking cessation, breastfeeding and pre-eclampsia.Ask your librarian if you hav...
Source: Browsing - April 15, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Social distancing
I don ' t think I had come across the phrase before, and certainly I have been very bad at socially distancing. I have been finding it very hard keeping 2 metres away from other people at the supermarket shelves, or from other people walking in the park. So I have found it very helpful that supermarkets have been putting markers on their floors and at the tills!But is social distancing a new idea?A search in Web of Science Core Collection for the phrase " social* distan* " finds a lot dating back to the 1970s, but most of it at least is from the psychology literature, seeming to describe a psychological id...
Source: Browsing - April 13, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: infection Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 8th April 2020
Some recent things you may need to know...PPERCM guidanceRCM press release A reminder ofPublic Health England guidance.RCOG e-learningUniversity of Leicester students have free access to this through the LME Network (students elsewhere should check with their education provider). To access you need an RCOG e-learning account. There is material on many topics including neonatal high dependency and intensive care, maternal resuscitation, labour ward management and gestational diabetes.ResearchEffectiveness of a brief motivational intervention to increase the breastfeeding duration in the first 6 months ...
Source: Browsing - April 8, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 1st April 2020
Published after 12 noon on April Fools ' Day, so definitely not an April Fool prank! Here are some things you may need to know...ResearchMindfetalness to increase women`s awareness of fetal movements and pregnancy outcomes: a cluster-randomised controlled trial including 39 865 women (BJOG)Effectiveness of a brief motivational intervention to increase the breastfeeding duration in the first 6 months postpartum: Randomized controlled trial. (Journal of Advanced Nursing)Patient safetyHealthcare Safety Investigation BranchSummary of Themes arising from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Mater...
Source: Browsing - April 1, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
