Wednesday, August 22, 2018

What's new in midwifery - 22nd August 2018


Some recent things you might need to know about.


Royal College of Anaesthetists
The care of the critically ill woman in childbirth: enhanced maternal care 2018.  Summarises recommendations relevant to the care of pregnant or recently pregnant, acutely or chronically unwell women, who require acute hospital maternity and critical care specialist services. 


NHS England
CCG maternity assessment, containing the independent panel commentary, methodology of the ratings for 2017/18 and the CCG individual assessment ratings for 2017/18. 

CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (CCG IAF)– Maternity Support Offer,
an offer to CCGs enabling them to make improvements against the maternity indicators chosen for the CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework.


Statistics
Reported by the Guardian.


In the news (the Guardian, to be specific!)
The surprising truth about becoming a mother in your 50s -from the women who know



From: EMBED Health Consortium Health Bulletin, King’s Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert

No What's new next week due to holidays.

Wednesday, August 08, 2018

What's new in midwifery - 8th August 2018


Some recent things you might need to know about.


RCOG: Each Baby Counts

Each baby counts: themed report onanaesthetic care, including lessons identified from Each Baby Counts babies born 2015 to 2017
A programme aiming to reduce the number of babies who die or who are left severely disabled as a results of incidents during term labour.

Saving Babies Lives care bundle
University of Manchester evaluation of the Saving Babies Lives care bundle


TAMBA Maternity Engagement Project
Report on the project, which looked at effect of NICE guidelines on multiple births


In the news
Grateful thanks to: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin, King’s Fund Library Health Management and Policy Alert, and time on the train spent reading the Guardian!

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

Ibn Sina

Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, was a Persian philosopher, whose work Canon of medicine (Kitab al-Qanun fi al-tibb) has a place of importance in the history of medicine.

He is today's Google Doodle, and if you use Google today you will find links to general works about him.

Here are two things about Ibn Sina and medicine:

Nasser M, Tibi A, Savage-Smith E (2007).  Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine: 11th century rules for assessing the effects of drugs, James Lind Library (also published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine)

This page, part of Brought to Life, from the Science Museum.


The librarian says: PubMed searches for Ibn Sina, Ibni Sina or Avicenna finds articles but also finds articles in the Avicenna Journal of Medicine, published by the Syrian American Medical Society, and from hospitals with his name.    Searching for 

ibn sina[Subject - Personal Name] OR avicenna[Subject - Personal Name]

finds just material about him.   

Wednesday, August 01, 2018

What's new in midwifery - 1st August 2018

Some recent things you might need to know about.



Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle
Evaluation of the implementation of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle in early adopter NHS Trusts in England shows that stillbirths fell by a fifth at the maternity units where national guidance, known as the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle, had been implemented. 

Also reported in the Guardian.


Perinatal mental health

An interview in the BMJ with Trudi Seneviratne, consultant adult and perinatal psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.


Breastfeeding
WHO/UNICEF report: Capture the moment: early initiation ofbreastfeeding
Looks at factors that help or hinder early initiation of breastfeeding.


World Breastfeeding Week starts today! 



Statistics


Other news
Genetically modified babies given go ahead by UK ethics body (Guardian)




Grateful thanks to: Embed Health Consortium Health Bulletin, HQIP; BMJ tables of contents; STAT: Morning Rounds; an email from a medical librarian colleague with a WBW signature; and time on the train spent reading the Guardian!