Wednesday, September 16, 2020

What's new in midwifery - 16th September 2020

The gap since the last post suggests weekly is too difficult, so I will aim to post on this topic once a fortnight.   

In the news

Plans to record pregnant women's alcohol consumption on their child's medical records are being considered by NICE, according to the Guardian

This is NICE's consultation on a quality standard for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.   It certainly suggests recording alcohol consumption on the woman's records, and transferring that information to the child's records.   This is statement 2 in the document at https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-qs10139/consultation/html-content-3, consultation open until this Friday, the 18th.

Feeding

A consensus statement from the US National Academies on feeding infants and children from birth to 24 months, 

COVID-19

A review of outcomes and vertical transmission in pregnancy (full text).

And another of outcomes, (abstract only).

Postpartum depression

Reducing the risk in adolescent mothers,  (abstract only).

Fetal heart monitoring

Evaluation of two strategies for external fetal electrocardiogram monitoring, (abstract only).

Blood pressure

Cochrane systematic review of setting and technique for monitoring a woman's blood pressure during pregnancy, (full text).


Ask your librarian, if you have one, about accessing full text of these if the link does not give you access.

Acknowledgement: McMaster's Evidence Alerts, for the research articles.  Articles included in Evidence Alerts are deemed important by practitioners (although you still need to read them critically).




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