Welcome to the March issue of Wombat News.
This monthly update will be a regular source of
important information on Wombat workshops, events and other news.
In this issue:
- MEETINGS / WORKSHOPS
- NEW TRIALS
REGISTERED
- NEW TRIAL PUBLICATIONS
- TRIALS NEEDING NEW
CENTRES/RECRUITS
- OTHER TRIAL
NEWS
- OTHER
NEWS
- RESEARCH
GAPS
MEETINGS / WORKSHOPS
March – April 2007, Melbourne
Further information available on the wombat website " Conferences" page
WOMBAT Collaboration Workshop: Developing a protocol for
your trial
Friday 30th and Saturday 31st
March
Limited Places still
available
Suitable for those interested
in designing or undertaking a randomised trial; regardless of prior
experience. Small groups will work on all aspects of writing a trial
protocol with the aim of presenting a draft protocol outline to the
workshop on Saturday morning for comment and
discussion.
For further details and an
outline of the workshop please contact Rebecca
Tooher
WOMBAT Collaboration: Meeting for trial
coordinators
Saturday 31st March, 9 AM - 12
PM
Places still
available
Open to anyone who is involved
in co-ordinating one or more perinatal trials.
Networking opportunity
For further
details please email Philippa Middleton
PSANZ Perinatal Mortality Group
Workshop
Saturday 31st March, 8.30 AM – 12.30 PM
Main workshop themes include: Defining priorities
for reducing stillbirth and improving standards in perinatal
mortality audit.
For further details please email Vicki
Flenady or visit: http://www.psanzpnmsig.org
IMPACT Network meeting
Sat 31 March:to provide
participants a forum to discuss recruitment into clinical trials in
perinatal health and a range of ideas and materials for use in
recruitment.
Sunday 1 April:presentations of new trials and
trials being planned.
For further details and an outline of the workshop
please email Vicki
Flenady or visit: http://www.psanzimpact.org
Cochrane Collaboration Work-in
Sunday 1 April, 2007
For further details please email Philippa Middleton
NEW
TRIALS REGISTERED
Further information available on the wombat website
"Perinatal Trials" page
- A randomised controlled trial on the effects of
increasing the protein content of Human Milk Fortifier on growth in
preterm infants <31 weeks (PiPIN)
ACTRN012606000525583
- Caseload midwifery for women at low risk of medical
complications (One2One) ACTRN012607000073404
- In extremely low birth weight infants who require
positive pressure at birth does the Neopuff Infant Resuscitator
compared with the Laerdal Infant Bag improve oxygen saturation
measurements in the first ten minutes of life? (Resuscitation Trial)
ACTRN0120607000062426
- Oral oxycodone analgesia compared with intrathecal
morphine for pain relief after caesarean delivery: a randomised
controlled trial (SMOOTH study)
ACTRN0120606000506594
NEW TRIAL
PUBLICATIONS
Koh THHG, Butow PN, Coory M, Budge D, Collie Li-An,
Whitehall J, Tattersall MH. Provision of taped conversations with
neonatologists to mothers of babies in intensive care: randomised
controlled trial. BMJ 2007; 334:28
TRIALS NEEDING
NEW CENTRES/RECRUITS
PPROMT Trial: Immediate Delivery versus Expectant Care in Women with Preterm
Prelabour Rupture Of the Membranes close to Term – a Randomised
Controlled Trial.
The aim of the study is to answer the question, in
women between 34 and 36+6 weeks gestation, with confirmed ruptured
membranes, is immediate delivery compared with expectant management
associated with:
1. Less neonatal and maternal morbidity compared
with expectant management
2. Fewer economic costs compared with expectant
management
For further details contact Kate Levett:
ppromt@med.usyd.edu.au or download
information
OTHER TRIAL NEWS
MIG TRIAL ACHIEVES
RECRUITMENT
MIG (Metformin in Gestational Diabetes):
Gestational Diabetes: pregnancy outcomes in treatment with metformin
compared with insulin reached its target of 750 in early
2007
OTHER NEWS
The WOMBAT Collaboration would
like to draw your attention to an IMPACT project that is
currently being undertaken:a survey on Perinatal Clinical Practice
Guidelines in Australia and New Zealand. The survey can easily be
accessed by clicking this link http://www.adhb.govt.nz/newborn/IMPACT.htm
What are some of the important
questions to address in maternal perinatal trials?
We have used Cochrane reviews to
identify gaps in maternal perinatal research and grouped these
into ‘umbrella’ topics. To make the issues easier to understand, we
have summarised and coded review findings in one line with the
research implications underneath.
The following research gap summaries are available
now:
Breastfeeding
Breech birth
Feeding for preterms
Maternal diet
Maternal infection
Models of Care
Soon to be available:
Fetal
Assessment
