Interventions for preventing and reducing the use of physical restraints in all long-term care settings
Several Cochrane reviews look at the evidence on interventions that might be used for older people in long-term care settings and these include reviews on ways to prevent or reduce the use of interventions that might do more harm than good. Among these, the review of interventions for preventing and reducing the use of physical restraints was updated in July 2023. We asked lead author, Ralph M öhler of the University Hospital Düsseldorf in Germany, to tell us about physical restraints and the latest findings of the review in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
What is the best way to use nicotine replacement therapy to quit smoking?
The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group has produced many reviews of the role of nicotine replacement therapy in smoking cessation and, in June 2023, they updated their review of different doses, durations and modes of delivery. Here ' s first author, Annika Theodoulou from the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK to tell us about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
Bringing together ancient DNA from a burial site and a giant database of consumer ancestry DNA helps fill gaps in African American ancestry, and a reckoning for Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum
First up on this week’s show, ancient DNA researchers and ancestry giant 23andMe joined forces to uncover present day ties to a cemetery at the Catoctin Furnace ironworks in Maryland, where enslaved people were buried. Contributing producers and hosts of the Dope Labs podcast Titi Shodiya and Zakiya Whatley spoke with authors Éadaoin Harney and David Reich about the historical significance of this work and how it may help som...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - August 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
Bringing together ancient DNA from a burial site and a giant database of consumer ancestry DNA helps fill gaps in African American ancestry, and a reckoning for Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum
First up on this week’s show, ancient DNA researchers and ancestry giant 23andMe joined forces to uncover present day ties to a cemetery at the Catoctin Furnace ironworks in Maryland, where enslaved people were buried. Contributing producers and hosts of the Dope Labs podcast Titi Shodiya and Zakiya Whatley spoke with authors Éadaoin Harney and David Reich about the historical significance of this work and how it may help som...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - August 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Case management programmes for older people living with frailty in the community
As the population ages, an increasing number of older people are living with frailty. A new Cochrane review from May 2023 looks at the evidence on the effects of case management for their integrated care. Here ' s one of the authors, Euan Sadler from the University of Southampton in the UK, to tell us about frailty and what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Cooling the body after resuscitation following cardiac arrest
Cochrane has produced around 40 systematic reviews of interventions that might help people after cardiac arrest. In this podcast, review author Nikola Sch ütz talks with lead author Jasmin Arrich, a consultant working at the emergency department at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, about the May 2023 update for one of these, looking at the effects of an intervention called therapeutic hypothermia or temperature control for patients who hav e been resuscitated after a cardiac arrest. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) supplements for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents
The Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group has produced approximately 200 reviews, with several relevant to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. One of these reviews, on the effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids, was updated in April 2023. Here ' s lead author, Donna Gillies from the University of Sydney in Australia to tell us more. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
What are the benefits and harms of different treatments for jellyfish stings?
The Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Group produced more than 300 reviews across a very wide range of topics. These include a review of the treatment of jelly fish stings, which was updated in June 2023. We asked lead author, Richard McGee from the Department of Paediatrics in Gosford Hospital in Australia to tell us more and he used an AI voice from elevenlabs.io to make the recording. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections
Back in October 1998, we published the first version of the Cochrane review of the effects of cranberry for preventing urinary tract infections. Nearly 25 years on, the fifth update was published in April 2023 and we asked lead author, Gabrielle Williams from University of Sydney in Australia to bring us up to date in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Stool transplantation for treatment of repeated Clostridioides difficile infection
The Cochrane Gut group have produced more than 220 reviews, including some that investigate treatments for Clostridioides difficile infection. These were added to in April 2023, with a new review of the use of fecal microbiota transplantation for the treatment of recurrent infection. Here ' s Zev Minkoff from Valley Children ' s Hospital in Madera in the USA to tell us more about the condition and this treatment. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Does the placement of a breathing tube using video assistance (videolaryngoscopy) increase the success and safety of the procedure in newborn babies?
As you can imagine, placing a breathing tube into a newborn baby is a particularly challenging task, and research has been done into different ways to do this. In May 2023, Mohan Pammi and co-reviewers from Baylor College of Medicine, Children ' s Hospital of Philadelphia and Boston Children ' s Hospital, updated the Cochrane review on comparing videolaryngoscopy to the traditional direct laryngoscopy approach and Mohan describes the latest findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 9, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Interventions to slow the progression of short-sightedness in children
In some areas of health and social care, the evidence from individual randomised trials answering questions about single interventions makes it difficult to choose between the interventions. Network meta-analyses can help with this by bringing all the evidence together in one place and, in February 2023, Cochrane Eyes and Vision published one such review, looking at the control of myopia in children. Here ' s lead author, John Lawrenson from City University of London in the UK, to tell us more. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Care involving families for Indigenous early childhood well-being
The portfolio of reviews from the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group was added to in December 2022 with a new review of the effects of family ‐centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well‐being delivered by primary healthcare services. We asked lead author, Natalie Strobel from Edith Cowan University in Mount Lawley Australia, to tell us about these interventions and their effects in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Can tests for inflammation help doctors decide whether to use antibiotics for airway infections?
Acute respiratory infections are one of the most common reasons for people to present to primary care and decisions about whether or not to prescribe antibiotics might rely on point-of-care tests for inflammation. The relevant Cochrane review was updated in October 2022 and we asked new lead author, Siri Aas Smedemark from Odense University Hospital in Denmark, to tell us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
What are consumers and health providers' views and experiences of working in formal partnerships to plan, deliver and evaluate health services?
There ' s increasing recognition of the importance of involving patients and the public in decision making about health services and a growing body of relevant research. In March 2023, we published a new qualitative evidence synthesis which brings some of this research together. It used co-production and, in this podcast Rachel Plachcinski, an independent Parent, Patient and Public Involvement Consultant and member of Cochrane ' s Consumer Network Executive, speaks with two of the authors, Bronwen Merner and Rebecca Ryan, from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia and the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group ab...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
