Podcasts From The Cochrane Library
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What are the effects of intensive control of blood sugar before, during and after surgery in people with diabetes?
09/10/2023 Duração: 03minPeople with diabetes face additional challenges when they need treatments, such as surgery, for other conditions. In the August 2023 update to the Cochrane review, reviewers examined whether perioperative glycaemic control might help with this, and we asked joint lead author, Dídac Mauricio from the CIBER of Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Disease in Barcelona Spain to tell us more in this podcast.
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Which remotely-delivered psychological approaches help people with long-term chronic pain to improve symptoms?
02/10/2023 Duração: 03minThe Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Group has produced more than 300 reviews and added to these in August 2023 with a review of remotely-delivered psychological therapies for chronic pain in adults. Here's one of the authors, Geoff Duggan formerly from the Bath Centre for Pain Services in the UK, to tell us about the importance of the review and its findings.
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Can collecting blood that is lost during surgery, and returning it to the patient, reduce the need to use donated blood for that patient?
28/09/2023 Duração: 04minThere are several Cochrane Reviews of methods to ensure that blood transfusions are used effectively and efficiently, and that donated blood remains available for use in emergency situations. One of the first of these reviews looked at the evidence on a technique called cell salvage. It was first published in October 2003 and the fourth update appeared in September 2023. We asked new lead author, Louise Geneen from NHS Blood and Transplant based in Oxford UK, to tell us more about the technique and the latest findings of the review.
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Platinum-containing chemotherapy for women before or after surgery for early triple-negative breast cancer
26/09/2023 Duração: 05minThe Cochrane Breast Cancer Group have published reviews on more than 80 topics, and these were added to in September 2023 with a review of platinum-based chemotherapy for women with early stage triple negative breast cancer. In this podcast, Rachel Dear, co-author and breast cancer oncologist based in Sydney, talks with lead author, Sofia Mason from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Darlinghurst Australia about the findings.
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How successful are healthy eating programmes in preschools, kindergartens and childcare settings?
21/09/2023 Duração: 05minIn this podcast, we're delving into the topic of "Healthy Eating Interventions in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings", which is especially important because helping children to develop healthy eating habits early on can greatly influence their dietary choices later in life. Here’s one of the authors, Melanie Lum, talking with lead author, Serene Yoong from Deakin University in Australia about the June 2023 Cochrane review of 52 randomized trials.
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Cannabis-based medicines for cancer pain
13/09/2023 Duração: 04minEffective management of a patient's pain is a key part of cancer care and various medicines have been suggested to help with this. These include cannabis-based medicines and medical cannabis, and in June 2023, we published a new Cochrane review of their effects. Here's one of the authors, Andrew Moore, a retired scientist formerly at the University of Oxford speaking from the depths of Devon in the UK, to tell us about the review's findings.
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Interventions for preventing and reducing the use of physical restraints in all long-term care settings
25/08/2023 Duração: 05minSeveral Cochrane reviews look at the evidence on interventions that might be used for older people in long-term care settings and these include reviews on ways to prevent or reduce the use of interventions that might do more harm than good. Among these, the review of interventions for preventing and reducing the use of physical restraints was updated in July 2023. We asked lead author, Ralph Möhler of the University Hospital Düsseldorf in Germany, to tell us about physical restraints and the latest findings of the review in this podcast.
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Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) medicines for diabetic macular oedema
25/08/2023 Duração: 02minDiabetic macular oedema is a common complication of diabetes, in which damage to the blood vessels at the back of the eye leads to swelling. Lucentis, Eylea and Avastin are three antiangiogenic drugs that can be injected into the eye to treat these blood vessels and reduce the swelling; and drugs with longer lasting effects have recently become available, such as Vabysmo and Beovue. In June 2023, Katie Curran from Queen's University Belfast in the UK and colleagues, updated their Cochrane review of these drugs and used a network meta-analysis to compare their effects. Here’s Katie to tell us more.
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What is the best way to use nicotine replacement therapy to quit smoking?
11/08/2023 Duração: 04minThe Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group has produced many reviews of the role of nicotine replacement therapy in smoking cessation and, in June 2023, they updated their review of different doses, durations and modes of delivery. Here's first author, Annika Theodoulou from the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine at the University of Oxford in the UK to tell us about the latest findings.
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Cooling the body after resuscitation following cardiac arrest
01/08/2023 Duração: 05minCochrane has produced around 40 systematic reviews of interventions that might help people after cardiac arrest. In this podcast, review author Nikola Schütz talks with lead author Jasmin Arrich, a consultant working at the emergency department at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, about the May 2023 update for one of these, looking at the effects of an intervention called therapeutic hypothermia or temperature control for patients who have been resuscitated after a cardiac arrest.
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Case management programmes for older people living with frailty in the community
01/08/2023 Duração: 03minAs the population ages, an increasing number of older people are living with frailty. A new Cochrane review from May 2023 looks at the evidence on the effects of case management for their integrated care. Here's one of the authors, Euan Sadler from the University of Southampton in the UK, to tell us about frailty and what they found.
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Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) supplements for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents
14/07/2023 Duração: 03minThe Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group has produced approximately 200 reviews, with several relevant to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. One of these reviews, on the effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids, was updated in April 2023. Here's lead author, Donna Gillies from the University of Sydney in Australia to tell us more.
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What are the benefits and harms of different treatments for jellyfish stings?
11/07/2023 Duração: 04minThe Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Group produced more than 300 reviews across a very wide range of topics. These include a review of the treatment of jelly fish stings, which was updated in June 2023. We asked lead author, Richard McGee from the Department of Paediatrics in Gosford Hospital in Australia to tell us more and he used an AI voice from elevenlabs.io to make the recording.
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Cranberries for preventing urinary tract infections
23/06/2023 Duração: 07minBack in October 1998, we published the first version of the Cochrane review of the effects of cranberry for preventing urinary tract infections. Nearly 25 years on, the fifth update was published in April 2023 and we asked lead author, Gabrielle Williams from University of Sydney in Australia to bring us up to date in this podcast.
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Stool transplantation for treatment of repeated Clostridioides difficile infection
12/06/2023 Duração: 04minThe Cochrane Gut group have produced more than 220 reviews, including some that investigate treatments for Clostridioides difficile infection. These were added to in April 2023, with a new review of the use of fecal microbiota transplantation for the treatment of recurrent infection. Here's Zev Minkoff from Valley Children's Hospital in Madera in the USA to tell us more about the condition and this treatment.
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Does the placement of a breathing tube using video assistance (videolaryngoscopy) increase the success and safety of the procedure in newborn babies?
09/06/2023 Duração: 04minAs you can imagine, placing a breathing tube into a newborn baby is a particularly challenging task, and research has been done into different ways to do this. In May 2023, Mohan Pammi and co-reviewers from Baylor College of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Boston Children's Hospital, updated the Cochrane review on comparing videolaryngoscopy to the traditional direct laryngoscopy approach and Mohan describes the latest findings in this podcast.
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Interventions to slow the progression of short-sightedness in children
25/05/2023 Duração: 05minIn some areas of health and social care, the evidence from individual randomised trials answering questions about single interventions makes it difficult to choose between the interventions. Network meta-analyses can help with this by bringing all the evidence together in one place and, in February 2023, Cochrane Eyes and Vision published one such review, looking at the control of myopia in children. Here's lead author, John Lawrenson from City University of London in the UK, to tell us more.
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Care involving families for Indigenous early childhood well-being
25/05/2023 Duração: 04minThe portfolio of reviews from the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group was added to in December 2022 with a new review of the effects of family‐centred interventions for Indigenous early childhood well‐being delivered by primary healthcare services. We asked lead author, Natalie Strobel from Edith Cowan University in Mount Lawley Australia, to tell us about these interventions and their effects in this podcast.
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Can tests for inflammation help doctors decide whether to use antibiotics for airway infections?
22/05/2023 Duração: 04minAcute respiratory infections are one of the most common reasons for people to present to primary care and decisions about whether or not to prescribe antibiotics might rely on point-of-care tests for inflammation. The relevant Cochrane review was updated in October 2022 and we asked new lead author, Siri Aas Smedemark from Odense University Hospital in Denmark, to tell us more in this podcast.
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The relative safety and effectiveness of different epoetin drugs for treating anaemia in people with chronic kidney disease
11/05/2023 Duração: 05minMany patients with moderate or severe chronic kidney disease will develop anaemia and a variety of treatments are available. In February 2023, the Cochrane Review of studies testing a range of erythropoietin drugs was updated and we asked first author, Edmund Chung from The Children's Hospital at Westmead in Australia to tell us about the latest findings in this podcast.