Pelvic floor muscle training with feedback or biofeedback for urinary incontinence in women.

Background: Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT), compared to no treatment, is effective for treating urinary incontinence (UI) in women. Feedback and biofeedback are additional resources that give women more information about their pelvic floor muscle contraction. The extra information could improve training performance by increasing capability or motivation for PFMT.

Adjuvanted subunit intranasal vaccine reduces SARS-CoV-2 onward transmission in hamsters.

Introduction: Most COVID-19 vaccine trials have focused on recipient protection, not protection of their contacts, a critical need. As a subunit intranasal COVID-19 vaccine reduced nasopharyngeal virus more than did an intramuscular (IM) vaccine, we hypothesized that this vaccine might reduce onward transmission to others.

Methods: We vaccinated hamsters with either the IM-administrated licensed mRNA vaccine twice or one dose of mRNA IM followed by adjuvanted subunit intranasal vaccine.

Communication partner training for aged-care workers: A scoping review.

Background: In aged-care settings, direct care staff play a crucial role in supporting older people with communication needs. Many direct care staff, however, have unmet skill needs in interpersonal, intercultural, and intergenerational communication. Communication Partner Training (CPT) provides a potential solution.

Intra-operative consultation: The benefits and optimization of asking for second surgical opinions.

Background: Intra-operative consultation (IOC) presents an opportunity for successful collaboration around direct patient care in an unanticipated fashion. Besides technical performance and cognitive guidance, successful IOC benefits from incorporating a blend of non-technical skills (NTS) such as communication, teamwork, and decision-making during the ideally supportive episode. Failure to use such skills may lead to untoward consequences for the surgeon who requests IOC despite successful patient rescue.