Filling a gap in OBGYN education: a pilot lecture series on perinatal mental health.

Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are one of the most common complications in the peripartum period. The Council for Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) includes diagnosis and management of PMADs as educational objectives, but no formal curriculum for trainees exists. Consequently, providers often struggle to identify and treat these disorders.

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on sales of sexual and reproductive health products: an ecological study of pharmacies in Kenya.

Objectives: To examine how sales of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) products varied among pharmacies in Kenya using administrative data, leveraging natural variation in the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying policy restrictions between 2019 and 2021.

Design And Setting: Ecological study of pharmacies in Kenya.

Participants: 761 pharmacies using the Maisha Meds product inventory management system (capturing 572 916 products sold).

Amniotic Band Syndrome, Perinatal Hospice, and Palliative Care versus Active Management.

. Amniotic band syndrome and sequence are a relatively rare condition in which congenital anomalies occur as a result of the adherence and entrapment of fetal parts with coarse fibrous bands of the amniotic membrane. A large percentage of reported cases have an atypical gestational history.

Postoperative outcomes among patients undergoing thoracostomy tube placement at time of diaphragm peritonectomy or resection during primary cytoreductive surgery for ovarian cancer.

Objective: Primary cytoreductive surgery in patients with stage IIIC-IV epithelial ovarian cancer frequently includes diaphragm peritonectomy or resection, which can lead to symptomatic pleural effusions when the resection specimen is ≥ 10 cm. Our objective was to evaluate whether the placement of an intraoperative thoracostomy tube decreased the incidence of symptomatic pleural effusions in these cases.

Methods: We identified 156 patients who underwent primary debulking surgery involving diaphragm peritonectomy or resection for stage III-IV ovarian cancer from 1/01-12/09.

Personal narratives in aphasia: understanding narrative competence.

Background: Personal narratives have been suggested as a way for persons post stroke to re-establish their identity. To relate tellable personal stories, narrative competence - along with its building blocks - is essential.

Objective: The objective of this study was to describe narrative competence in persons with mild to moderate aphasia.