Plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 to treat individuals with COVID-19
Cochrane is producing a series of reviews to help decision makers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, we published our first update of the review of convalescent plasma and hyperimmune immunoglobulin and we asked its lead author, Vanessa Piechotta from the University Hospital Cologne in Germany, to tell us what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Interventions available during pandemics for heavy menstrual bleeding: an overview of Cochrane Reviews
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for healthcare systems. Interventions which were routinely delivered before 2020 are now difficult to administer and it is important to identify the effectiveness of interventions that are available. One way to do this is through focused overviews of existing reviews and this was done in July 2020 for interventions for heavy menstrual bleeding. In this podcast, Dr Martin Hirsch from University College Hospitals talks to Dr James Duffy from King ’s Fertility about the findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Exercise for dysmenorrhoea
Dysmenorrhoea is the medical name given to painful uterine cramps of menstrual origin, which is also known as period pain. There are several Cochrane Reviews of ways that might ease this and the one investigating the benefits of exercise was updated in September 2019. Here ’s one of the authors, Jane Chalmers from Western Sydney University in Australia, to tell us what it found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - August 3, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Interventions for helping older adults prescribed multiple medications to use and take their medications
Older people often have multiple chronic health problems, requiring multiple different medicines. However, this can be challenging and a new Cochrane Review in May 2020 examines the effectiveness of interventions that might help them. Here ’s lead author, Amanda Cross from Monash University in Parkville Australia to tell us what the review found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 16, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement in people with severe aortic stenosis and low surgical risk
The Cochrane Heart Group have produced more than 200 reviews, covering a very wide range of conditions and interventions. In December 2019, they published a new review comparing different procedures for patients with severe aortic stenosis and we asked the lead author, Ahmed Kolkailah, from the Department of Medicine at Cook County Health in Chicago, USA to tell us about the condition and the review ’s findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 16, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement in people with severe aortic stenosis and low surgical risk
The Cochrane Heart Group have produced more than 200 reviews, covering a very wide range of conditions and interventions. In December 2019, they published a new review comparing different procedures for patients with severe aortic stenosis and we asked the lead author, Ahmed Kolkailah from the Department of Medicine at Cook County Health in Chicago, USA to tell us about the condition and the review ’s findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 16, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Can symptoms and medical examination accurately diagnose COVID-19 disease?
COVID-19 has spread quickly throughout the world, and Cochrane is producing a series of rapid reviews to help decision makers deal with the pandemic and its impact. One of these reviews, published in June 2020, examines the accuracy of using signs and symptoms to diagnose whether someone has the disease. We asked the lead author, Thomas Struyf from the KU Leuven in Belgium, to tell us why the review is needed and what they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - July 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Keyhole (laparoscopic) surgery through the abdomen for treating urinary incontinence in women
Cochrane Incontinence has produced more than 40 systematic reviews of interventions that might help people suffering from incontinence. In this podcast, one of the group ’s researchers, Fiona Stewart, talks with author Wael Agur, a subspecialist and lead urogynaecologist for NHS Ayrshire& Arran, UK, about the December 2019 update for one of these, looking at the effects of a type of surgery called laparoscopic colposuspension. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 11, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Video calls for reducing social isolation and loneliness in older people
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has included restrictions on some people ’s movement, to try to protect them from the virus. This isolation may have adverse effects on mental health and, in May 2020, we published a rapid review of the effects of using video calls to ease this among older people. We asked the lead reviewer, Chris Noone from the National University of Ir eland in Galway to describe the evidence that they found. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 5, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Enteral lactoferrin supplementation for prevention of sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants
Sepsis is the most common cause of death for newborn babies worldwide. Mohan Pammi and Gautham Suresh from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, USA updated the Cochrane review of the evidence on the use of lactoferrin, in March 2020, and we asked Mohan to describe the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 5, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
