Volume 4, No. 12, December 2006/January 2007
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Abstract of the Month
Organizational silence threatens patient safety
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From Your Colleagues
Carolyn Aoyama
Burt Attico
Steve Holve
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Judy Thierry
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Hot Topics
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Features
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Medical Mystery Tour
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
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What’s new on the ITU MCH web pages
Diabetes: Understandings About the Causes of Type 2 - Old / New
http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/MCH/F/PCdiscForumMod.cfm#diabetes
There are several upcoming Conferences
and Online CME/CEU resources, etc . . .
and the latest Perinatology Corners (free online CME from IHS)
. . . or just take a look at the What’s New page
Save the Dates: Upcoming events of interest
22nd Annual Midwinter Indian Health OB/PEDS Conference
- For providers caring for Native women and children
- January 26-28, 2007
- Telluride, CO
- Contact Alan Waxman awaxman@salud.unm.edu
TeenScreen Conference: Second Annual
- March 14 and 15, 2007
- Washington D.C.
- ContactTSConference@childpsych.columbia.edu
2nd International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health
- April 20-22, 2007
- Montreal , Quebec, Canada
- Solutions, not Problems
- Joint meeting of IHS, AAP-CONACH, First Nations and several other stakeholders
- http://www.aap.org/nach/2InternationalMeeting.htm
2007 Indian Health MCH and Women’s Health National Conference
- August 15 -17, 2007
- Albuquerque , NM
- THE place to be for anyone involved in care of AI/AN women, children
- Internationally recognized speakers
- Save the dates. Details to follow
- Want a topic discussed? Contact nmurphy@scf.cc
Did you miss something in the last OB/GYN Chief Clinical Consultant Corner?
November 2006 OB/GYN CCC Corner
Volume 4, No. 11, November 2006
Abstract of the Month
- Regular Cola Intake Reduces Bone Mineral Density in Women
From Your Colleagues
Carolyn Aoyama
- Learn Quick Health Data Online with us
- New Women’s Health Work Group Forming: Looking for interested volunteers
Burt Attico
- Remembering Bill Carlile
Scott Giberson
- Funding Opportunity: Alcohol Abuse and HIV/AIDS
Wanda Jones
- Hyperemesis gravidum can be devastating to women
Brenda Neufeld
- Fish Intake, Contaminants, and Human Health
Chuck North
- Interested in a New England winter experience? Here is a great TDY
Ron Pust
- At Highest Risk: Birthing in the Andes
Judy Thierry
- AI/AN Candidates in college are encouraged to apply – deadline 15 December 2006
- SIDS: Train the Trainer Sessions available
- Archived METH Web cast available
- Perinatal oral health screening: Provider response and interface with oral health care
Dawn Wyllie
- Perinatal depression evidence based care
- Many other Depression resources
Hot Topics
- Early adolescents worry more as they age. . . .
- Overweight Adolescent Girls Have Increased Mortality Risk
- Adolescent overweight and obesity: Effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy
- Public Cost of Adolescent Childbearing- By the Numbers
- Dietary calcium intervention in adolescent mothers increases bone mineralization
- Health Behaviors among American Indian/Alaska Native Women, 1998–2000 BRFSS
- Raloxifene did not significantly affect the risk of CHD
- Rifampin Has Improved Adherence, Less Toxicity Than Isoniazid for Latent Tuberculosis
- Prophylactic Surgery Reduces Ovarian Cancer Risk
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Magnesium sulfate tocolysis: time to quit
- Uterine rupture cannot be predicted with any combinations of clinical factors
- Drugs for treatment of very high blood pressure during pregnancy: Dealer’s choice
- VBAC is safer than repeat cesarean delivery if patient has had a prior vaginal delivery
- Sphincter injuries: Overlap repair lower risks for fecal urgency and anal incontinence
- ‘No touch’ hysteroscopy much better tolerated
- Hot water bottles do work: Active Warming Cuts Pelvic Pain in Pre-hospital Setting
- Early catheter removal post-op: Early ambulation and early discharge -Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: A Management Algorithm: Evidenced-Based Clinical Medicine
- Suppressive Therapy for Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis Reduces Recurrences
Features
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Umbilical Cord Blood Gas and Acid-Base Analysis
- Menstruation in Girls and Adolescents: Using the Menstrual Cycle as a Vital Sign
- Overweight Adolescent: Prevention, Treatment, and Obstetric– Gynecologic Implications
- Breast Concerns in the Adolescent
- Using Preimplantation Embryos for Research
- No Stirrups Preferred for Pelvic Examinations
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Over 1 million U.S. babies are delivered by Cesarean delivery
- Bone protection shifted to nonestrogen anti-osteoporosis medicine after WHI
- Want to keep up with evidence-based medicine?
- It is official, breastfeeding counts
- Breast-Feeding Protects Against Obesity in Children of Diabetic, Overweight Mothers
- Herbal Medicines in Pregnancy and Lactation
- Infants Born During Who Were Ever Breastfed, by Race / Ethnicity of Mother
- Routine HIV Screening in 13- 64 year olds: Scott Giberson
- 40 years in partnership: American Academy of Pediatrics and Indian Health
- Can a 29% Cesarean Delivery Rate Possibly Be Justified?
- Out with Clomid? Here come the Aromatase inhibitors for ovulation induction
- Fetal injury at cesarean delivery: Indication and type of uterine incision
- Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke: What’s the Right Dose? 160 mg/day
- Postcoital Bleeding and Cervical Cancer Risk only 1/220
- Amnioinfusion Does Not Prevent Meconium Aspiration Syndrome
- Exercise and Pregnancy; Preclampsia Drugs; Calcium Supplementation
- Do you have breastfeeding questions? The new IHS Breast feeding site has the answers
- Ortho Evra Patch Linked to Risk for Venous Thromboembolism
- New Breastfeeding Web Page for the Indian Health System
- Maternal survival worldwide: consensus and controversies
- The words ‘bizarre’ and ‘atypia’ in the same pathology report sentence…hmmm…
- External Fetal Monitors - Can you kick the habit?
- Asthma in Pregnancy
- Fracture risk among First Nations people
- A.) Fetal Lung Maturity B.) Blood test for pre-eclampsia? C.) Fish oil for the brain
- Causes of Type 2 Diabetes: Old and New Understandings
- Prevalence of HPV Infection among Men: A Systematic Review of the Literature
- No improvement in fetal outcome, increased maternal morbidity: Who pays for this?
- Special Care Clinic – Phoenix Indian Medical Center
- Heard about prenatal and postpartum care? Here is something on Internatal Care
- Measuring Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Perpetration
- CDC Reports Prevalence of Dating Violence in High School Students
- Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain in Older Patients
- Indian Health Service History Project
- Maximizing access to EC not affect incidence of either pregnancy or STIs
- EC: Progesterone receptor modulator CDB-2914 as effective as levonorgestrel
- Monophasic oral contraceptives preferred over biphasic for contraception
- One year's supply of OCPs: Higher continuation, improved screening, and lowered costs
- Check out our new IHS STD website
- New web site focuses on the history and legacy of maternal child health
- Is an informed consent necessary for all x-rays in pregnant women?
- Tall Girls: When being tall was a disease - how culture shapes and defines medical care
- Viral gastroenteritis in AI/AN children - do we have more than everyone else? Surprising findings
- Prevalence of mental health disease in AI/AN children
- Telehealth Opportunity: Do you need nutrition services at your site?
- AHRQ Launches Electronic Preventive Services Selector Tool for Primary Care Clinicians
- Anthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to fix it
- Cesarean Delivery: Both Overused and Underused in Developing Countries
- Risk of formula feeding to infants in sub-Saharan Africa: Need for alternative strategies
- Child Health USA 2005 Released
Medical Mystery Tour
- The words ‘bizarre’ and ‘atypia’ in the same pathology report sentence…hmmm….
- High-Dose Gabapentin Equal to Estrogen for Hot Flashes: POEM
- Hormone Therapy in Postmenopausal and Perimenopausal Women
- Alendronate May Be Best Choice for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
- Estrogen only trial WHI: Significantly lower rates of any arthroplasty
- Progestin in HRT Linked to Hearing Loss in Postmenopausal Women
- What Women Want
- Delayed cord clamping: Benefits in settings with high levels of neonatal anemia
- Prevalence of diabetes: Diagnosed Diabetes Among AI/AN Aged <35 Years
- Great, low-cost, fun CME opportunity
- Exclusively for Nurses: IHS has a Biomedical Librarian / Informationist dedicated to I/T/U
- Executive Nurse Fellows Program, R obert Wood Johnson
- Measuring HIV Risk in the U.S. Population Aged 15-44
- HPV and HPV Vaccine: Information for Healthcare (Revised)
- Preoperative Evaluation
- Potassium Citrate Beneficial for Osteopenia
- November is National Diabetes Month: Focus on gestational diabetes (GDM)
- It's Never Too Early to Prevent Diabetes: Tip Sheets for Women and Health Care Providers
- Be Prepared: The Boy Scout motto…er…the Maternity Care Provider motto, too
- Adverse neonatal outcomes associated with antenatal dexamethasone vs betamethasone
- Metformin Exposure During First Trimester Seen Safe for Fetus
- Predicting glyburide failure is difficult, not associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes
- The current pregnancy loss rate after amniocentesis is closer to 1 in 1,600
- Treatment of periodontitis: Is it a case of association does not imply causation?
- Causes of Type 2 Diabetes: Old and New Understandings
- IHS Consent Form for an HIV Antibody Test is Hereby Cancelled
- Check out our new IHS STD website
- Adapting condoms to community values in Native American communities: Snag bags
- Barriers to condom purchasing: Effects of product positioning on reactions to condoms
- Interventions for Molluscum Contagiosum: Cochrane Briefs
Barbara Stillwater, Alaska Dibaetes Prevention and Control
- Gestational Diabetes Linked to High Prevalence of Periodontal Disease
- Physical activity before pregnancy or during pregnancy reduces gestational diabetes
- Mothers with type 2 diabetes during pregnancy can transmit risk factors to their children
- Does coffee reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in individuals with impaired glucose?
- Every kilogram of weight loss resulted in 16% reduction of diabetes risk
Save the Dates: Upcoming events of interest
What’s new on the ITU MCH web pages
Past CCC Corners
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Dr. Neil Murphy is the Obstetrics and Gynecology Chief Clinical Consultant (OB/GYN C.C.C.). Dr. Murphy is very interested in establishing a dialogue and/or networking with anyone involved in women's health or maternal child health, especially as it applies to Native or indigenous peoples around the world. Please don't hesitate to contact him by e-mail or phone at 907-729-3154.
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