The purposes of this Committee Opinion are to review the current literature concerning the reported benefits and risks of immersion in water during labor and delivery and, based on these data, to provide
updated clinical recommendations and support for well - designed research regarding these practices.
Not exact matches
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just released a new
clinical report, The Transfer of Drugs and Therapeutics Into Human Breast Milk: An
Update on Selected Topics, to provide guidance on drug exposure and reaffirm the
recommendation that most medications and immunizations are safe during lactation.
The
updated recommendations include revised ELN genetic categories, a proposed response category based on minimal residual disease status, and a proposed category for progressive disease for
clinical trials.
The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus
recommendations should be supported by
clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a
clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, «hands - on» component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or
updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for
updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy.
The guidelines are based on a review of the best available research and
clinical practice experience and
update previous sets of
recommendations on detecting and preventing SSIs from professional
clinical and hospital societies.
Dr. Elizabeth Berliner, Director of
Clinical Programs for Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University, shares relevant
updates, a description of diagnostic tests available and
recommendations regarding management of such diseases in the shelter environment at the 2012 ASPCA / Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Conference.
According to AAHA, «By converting to a web - based format, the Canine Vaccination Task Force is enabled to provide timely
updates on vaccination
recommendations, references, and newly licensed biologics for use in dogs in
clinical practice and shelters in the United States and Canada.»