Monday, February 19, 2024

What's new in midwifery - 19th February 2024

Not sure where the time went, but here are some things that might be useful to know.    

Respectful maternity care

Respectful maternity care, a systematic review .  This is a systematic review of definitions and valid measurements of "respectful maternity care".  There is a published correction detailing errors in some of the published tables.  There is also an AHRQ (the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Comparative Effectiveness Review on the topic. 

Recommendations and research

WHO recommendations on the assessment of postpartum blood loss and use of a treatment bundle for postpartum haemorrhage.

Effect of Dexmedetomidine on Postpartum Depression in Women With Prenatal Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Clinical Practice Guideline no. 8: first and second stage labor management.

Other things

Tales from Call the Midwife podcast series, including stories from people who have experienced or remember events described or portrayed in the series.   

Observer article on perinatal mental healthincluding information about organisations.



Acknowledgements: Rotherham Hospital Library and Knowledge Service Latest Health News blog; McMaster Evidence Alerts, Heather Dawson (LSE)'s Social sciences updates.

Thursday, January 04, 2024

What's new in midwifery - 4th January 2024 (Happy New Year!)

Some things that might be useful to know about

Perinatal bereavement

SANDS Listening Project, learning from the experiences of Black and Asian bereaved parents (PDF)

Infant feeding

Breastfeeding and once-daily small-volume formula supplementation to prevent infant growth impairment,  (open access research article)

Perinatal mental health

Perinatal mental health conditions, SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network) Guideline 169
 

Delivery

Perinatal morbidity among women with a previous caesarean delivery (PRISMA trial): a cluster-randomised trial, link to PubMed record (subscription needed to read the article)

Vaginal compared with oral misoprostol induction at term: a cluster randomized controlled trial, link to PubMed record (subscription needed to read the article) 


Statistics

NHS Digital Maternity services monthly statistics, final for September 2023, provisional for October 2023, and experimental statistics.


Acknowledgements: McMaster Evidence Alerts, Rotherham Hospital Library and Knowledge Service Latest Health News.


Tuesday, December 19, 2023

What's new in midwifery - 19th December 2023

First of all, season's greetings and best wishes for a peaceful and happy 2024.

Some new things you might find useful.

Royal Colleges

Royal College of Nursing resource for nursing and midwifery practice about female genital mutilation (PDF).  There is also this supplement about sexual health care (also PDF)

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Good Practice Paper no. 17, Maternity triage (PDF)


New publications from MBRRACE

Perinatal confidential enquiry, A comparison of the care of Black and White women who have experienced a stillbirth or neonatal death, published December 2023 (PDF)

Perinatal confidential enquiry, A comparison of the care of Asian and White women  who have experienced a stillbirth or neonatal death, published December 2023 (PDF)


House of Lords Library

Maternal mortality rates in the Black community, published 12th December 2023


Research

Active pelvic movements on a Swiss ball reduced labour duration, pain, fatigue and anxiety in parturient women: a randomised trial.   Link to record in PubMed - follow full text link to access the article, which is open access.


My usual thanks to colleagues at the Library and Knowledge Service at Rotherham Hospital for their Latest Health News, which alerted me to a lot of the above, and McMaster's Evidence Alerts.