Second-trimester miscarriage: a review of postnatal investigations and subsequent pregnancy outcomes.

Background: Second-trimester loss is pregnancy loss after the 12th and before the 24th completed weeks of pregnancy. This study aims to review cases of second-trimester miscarriage who attended a large maternity hospital and to examine pregnancy outcomes in this group of women.

Methods: This study is a review of cases of second-trimester miscarriage using descriptive, exploratory design, involving a retrospective chart review.

Changes in Multidisciplinary Tracheostomy Team Practice Over Time.

Aim Increasing numbers of tracheostomy patients are discharged from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to general hospital wards. There is evidence that a Multidisciplinary Tracheostomy Team (MTT) can have a positive impact on the care of tracheostomy patients discharged from the ICU. We compared tracheostomy management and patient outcome in two time periods, at the start of our MTT practice in 2009-2011 and again in 2017.