What's new in midwifery - 2nd November 2022 - global health, mental health
Global healthThe causes of preterm neonatal deaths in India and Pakistan (PURPOSe): a prospective cohort studyMental healthAssociation of antidepressant use during pregnancy with risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children, librarian intervention or payment needed for access to full article.One woman ' s experience of severe postpartum anxiety, published in the Guardian. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - November 2, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 2nd November 2022 - audit reports and inspections
Perinatal Mortality Review Tool Annual Report for March 2021 to February 2022MBRRACE-UK Perinatal Mortality Surveillance Report 2020And an article from the Guardian:CQC finds evidence of sub standard care at 39% of maternity units in England (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - November 2, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 2nd November 2022 - research
Infant feedingText message-based breastfeeding support compared with usual care: a randomized controlled trial (librarian intervention or payment needed for access to full text)DeliverySufentanil for spinal analgesia during cesarean section delivery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsMonofilament suture versus braided suture thread to improve pregnancy outcomes after vaginal cervical cerclage (C-STICH): a pragmatic randomised, controlled, phase 3, superiority trialGestational diabetesExercise during pregnancy for preventing gestational diabetes mellitus and hypertensive disorders: An...
Source: Browsing - November 2, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - the East Kent report
Reading the signals: maternity and neonatal services in East Kent, the Kirkup Report, has been published.News items about it:Guardian, 19th October 2022PA Media, in the Guardian, 19th October 2022BMJ news itemNCT responseProfessional Standards Authority response (an organisation that works with organisations that register and regulate people working in health and social care, and which reports to Parliament) (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - October 20, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 7th October 2022
Some recent things it might help to know.ResearchAlternative to intensive management of the active phase of the second stage of labor: a multicenter randomized trial (Phase Active du Second STade trial) among nulliparous women with an epidural. Trial conducted in France. (L)Midwifery continuity of care: a scoping review of where, how, by whom and for whom. Continuity of care in this context is care being provided by the same midwife. Declaration of interest - I found out about this one as it cites a study I did the literature searching for! Related to that is this letter from NHS Eng...
Source: Browsing - October 7, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 27th September 2022
Some research you may find useful...Those marked L need payment or librarian intervention. Those marked OA are open access. One new Cochrane review: Maternal postures for fetal malposition in labour for improving the health of mothers and their infants. This is one of two new reviews replacing a review from 2007. The other is on maternal postures for fetal malposition in late pregnancy, but I can see no published review or protocol at the moment. (Access for free within the UK).Two on labour or delivery, possibly more obstetrics, but may be of interest:Weight-Based Compared With...
Source: Browsing - September 27, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Bwv 562
This is the Fantasia and Fugue in C minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, and you will have heard the Fantasia part if you were watching the funeral services of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II earlier this week. It was the organ piece played at the end of the service, at both Westminster Abbey and St George ' s Chapel Windsor.The Fantasia is followed in the manuscripts and some recordings by a Fugue, but the fugue is incomplete and stops abruptly.There are several recordings on YouTube,some to show playing technique by Willem Tanke (scroll down in this playlist), andone reconstructing the fugue, by Gilberto Scorda...
Source: Browsing - September 24, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: Bach Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research - 2nd September 2022
Some new research and reviews that might be useful.L - Librarian intervention may be needed to get the full paper (or Library access, or a subscription)OA - open access. Cochrane reviews are available in the UK, but outside the UK you may need a subscription or national access.Suture Compared With Staples for Skin Closure After Cesarean Delivery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (L)Replacing salt with low-sodium salt substitutes (LSSS) for cardiovascular health in adults, children and pregnant women. (Cochrane review)Risk of preterm birth, small for gestational age at birth, and stillbirth after c...
Source: Browsing - September 2, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 18th August 2022 - research
Some new research that might be interesting or useful. OA = open access, so freely availableLI = librarian intervention may be needed (if you have a librarian. Payment or a subscription are alternatives)Labour and birthBenefits and risks of spontaneous pushing versus directed pushing during the second stage of labour among women without epidural analgesia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (LI)Prophylactic methylergonovine and oxytocin compared with oxytocin alone in patients undergoing intrapartum cesarean birth: a randomized controlled trial. (OA)Suture compared with staples f...
Source: Browsing - August 18, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 18th August 2022 - policy, news and statistics
Some news, policy, reports and statistics that might be useful.‘I felt I was being assessed on my skin colour’: Black women around the world share their birth stories, Guardian.Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: quarterly data for 2021 to 2022, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Annual Report - April 2021 to March 2022 (experimental statistics report), NHS Digital.Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) - Ambitious for change: research into NMC processes and people ’s protected characteristics (press release, report downloadable from there).It wasWorld Breastfe...
Source: Browsing - August 18, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 20th July 2022
Some things you may want to know about:First, consider submitting an abstract to theInternational Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Cape Town, May 2023. TheGuardian ' s report of plans to offer COVID boosters to the over 50s has a quote from the UKHSA that mentions pregnant women. This made me look forGovernment information on the autumn booster programme, which does say that pregnant women are eligible. The UKHSA quote encourages them to take up the offer.Then, athematic report from the National Child Mortality Database looking at the contribution of newborn health to child mortali...
Source: Browsing - July 20, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - research - 8th July 2022
Librarian intervention (or a subscription) may be needed for some of these.Perinatal depressionThe effectiveness of telemedicine interventions on women with postpartum depression: A systematic review and meta-analysisEffectiveness of Internet-based psychological interventions for treating perinatal depression: A systematic review and meta-analysisSmoking cessationEconomic analysis of financial incentives for smoking cessation during pregnancy and postpartumPreterm birthDoes vaginal progesterone prevent recurrent preterm birth in women with a singleton gestation and a history of spontaneous preterm birth? Evidence from a sy...
Source: Browsing - July 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - news and guidelines - 8th July 2022
Only two news items and one updated NICE guideline, so they are all in this single post!Guardian report ofan outbreak ofBacillus cereus at the NICU in the Evelina, St Thomas ' Hospital, London, in 2013/2014.Guardian report of a cross party review of whether MPs should be allowed to bring babies into the House of Commons. And an update ofNICE guideline NG25, Preterm labour and birth. (Source: Browsing)
Source: Browsing - July 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
The interim law librarian: Part 5 - what to do with this small amount of new knowledge?
My brief time as a law librarian is nearly over. I have rather enjoyed it, I have to say. I have not had to teach anything, and most of the enquiries have been about referencing, but I did look into sources of French law, liaise with a supplier about a change of database interface, and look into ebook platforms. It has certainly been interesting to learn about the habits, resources and conventions of another subject discipline. With all this new found knowledge, I find myself wondering what use health students might make of law resources. They may encounter legislation and...
Source: Browsing - July 4, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: health librarianship law librarianship Source Type: blogs
Joan Hendrik Smidt van Gelder
My eye was caught bya recent Guardian article on how Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerk, 101, has been reunited with a painting looted by the Nazis from her father ' s house in Arnhem 80 years ago.Her father was an art collector, and there were other works looted (seethis Guardian article,this from Looted Art,this from the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, andthis from the Art Newspaper). The work described in those pieces had found its way to the Mansion House in London.My health librarian eye was further caught by mention of her father, Joan Hendrik Smidt van Gelder, a paediatrician at the city ' s children '...
Source: Browsing - June 25, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
