P3-0124 — Annual report 2015
1.
Progesterone for preterm birth prevention

Background: Progesterone is important in maintaining pregnancy. Progesterone supplementation may reduce risk of preterm birth in certain populations of pregnant women. The objective of this review was to develop evidence-based clinical recommendation for progesterone treatment in the prevention of preterm birth. Methods: A search in the Medline database was performed using keywords: progesterone, pregnancy, preterm birth, preterm labour, preterm delivery, randomized trial, and randomized controlled trial. We only included studies of vaginal progesterone treatments for the prevention of preterm birth and excluded studies on 17-α-hydroksiprogesterone caproate. Results: We report findings from twelve randomized trials conducted since 2003. These trials differ regarding inclusion criteria, progesterone dose, vehicle used, and duration of treatment. Inclusion criteria were: short uterine cervix (two trials), history of previous preterm birth (two trials), signs and symptoms of preterm labour (three trials), twin pregnancies (three trials), and multiple risk factors (among these history of previous preterm birth was the most common) (two trials). Six of these twelve trials showed a significant reduction in preterm birth in the progesterone groups. Conclusions: Based on current evidence we recommend treatment with 200 mg of micronized progesterone daily, administered vaginally, in pregnant women found to have a short cervix (≤ 25 mm) at 19-24 weeks. The treatment should be continued until 37 weeks.

F.22 Improvement to existing health/diagnostic methods/procedures

COBISS.SI-ID: 282781696
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Female sexuality and medicine - sexualisation of everyday life, desexualisation of childbirth

There is a widespread belief that doctors are the “real” experts on women’s health, sexual health included, and that biomedicine holds the key to improving it. This paper is going to demonstrate the limitations of such an approach, challenging the common perception that medicine alone holds the key to understanding women’s sexuality. In considering women’s sexuality we have to step outside the biomedical model to explore the ways in which some theories and practices are silenced and others are (re)produced. The paper seeks answers to the fundamental question about the bond between women and medicine from the perspective of the everyday life of the modern woman: What does medicine have to do with female liberation, particularly in the field of sexuality? We are dealing with complex questions; it is a challenging task to maintain the tension of the controversies and avoid over-simplification. We are particularly interested in the idea of the regulation of female sexuality, and hence the patriarchal management of female bodies through the State and its institutions. This paper elaborates the idea that one important part of modernization is the regulation, management and surveillance of the human body, with sexuality a particularly prominent feature.

F.01 Acquisition of new practical knowledge, information and skills

COBISS.SI-ID: 3369189
3.
Pregnancy and childbirth

We wrote a new edition of the Slovenian textbook Pregnancy and childbirth for specialists, trainee and medical students.

D.10 Educational activities

COBISS.SI-ID: 278999296
4.
The impact of cultural and psychological factors on the behavior of women in the menstrual time

The central theme of doctoral dissertation is menstruation. Through a review of various theoretical positions we analyzed the phenomenon of menstruation through a variety of disciplines: medicine, biology, history, sociology, theology, anthropology and economics. In the empirical part of the doctoral dissertation with quantitative methods we researched the Impact of Cultural and Psychological factors on the behavior of women (students) in the following country’s: Slovenia, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Based on the theoretical principles we have been created a theoretical model of behavior of the consumer, which we also tested and confirmed. In the final part of the doctoral dissertation we presented the main findings of research, contribution to science and make recommendations for further research.

D.09 Tutoring for postgraduate students

COBISS.SI-ID: 1024676673
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Robust detection of heart beats in multimodal data

University Preseren Award in 2015

E.01 National awards

COBISS.SI-ID: 17444697