Measuring and Monitoring Cognition in the Postoperative Period

It is common for patients of all ages to experience some degree of cognitive disturbance following surgery. In most cases, impairment appears mild and is restricted to the acute post-operative period, resolving steadily and speedily. In a small number of cases, however, deficits may be more pronounced and/or endure for longer periods, significantly delaying recovery and increasing the risk of serious clinical complications. The ability to accurately measure postoperative cognition, and track recovery of function, is an important clinical task. This review explores practical and methodological issues that may confound this process, examining how best to obtain reliable and meaningful measures of cognition before and after surgery. It considers neuropsychological test selection, administration, analysis and interpretation and offers evidence-based practice points for clinicians and researchers

An Annotated Reconstruction of the Great Stemma

The Piggin Stemma is an SVG document that reconstructs the fifth-century Great Stemma, presenting it in a modern idiom as a digital document with regular typefaces, strict graphic alignments and twelve explanatory overlays. This is the most complete edition to date of this late antique diagrammatic chronicle of biblical history and genealogy, and the technical format and choices involved in the publication are explained here

Rugby, risk and rhetoric: the trivialisation of injury data must end

Rugby, risk and rhetoric: the trivialisation of injury data must en

Diet and nutrition event report

The following report provides an overview of the Diet and Nutrition Event held for the Somali community. The event aimed to raise awareness about healthy eating habits, promote nutrition education, and address specific dietary needs within the Somali community

Science of digestion event report: 26 April 2022

A report detailing a community event held on 26 April 2022 in collaboration with Guts UK charity to present gut health research to the North West London community and understand their gut health priorities and research questions

An urgent call for clarity regarding England Rugby’s injury claims

In this feature, Joe Piggin (Senior Lecturer in Sport Policy and Management) and Alan Bairner (Professor of Sport and Social Policy), both at Loughborough University, take England Rugby to task for its false and misleading information about the risk of serious injury inherent to rugby, a compulsory sport at many schools in England

Online survey insight report: Involving children, young people, and families in our research

Insight report summarising the findings from an online public involvement survey to help shape child, young persons, and family research in North West London

What counts as ‘the evidence’? A need for an urgent review of injury risk in school rugby

In March 2016, an open letter called for the removal of tackling in school rugby union. In response, the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) of the UK consulted, gathered evidence and continued with the status quo – they endorsed tackling in school rugby. The CMOs stated that ‘the evidence does not support the conclusions and recommendations laid out in [the] open letter.’ The CMOs relied on a report from the UK Physical Activity Expert Group (PAEG) and a review article by Dr Ross Tucker and colleagues in the BJSM. We highlight 5 problems with the evidence that the CMOs used to make their decision stemming from a report to the CMOs by the Physical Activity Expert Group (PAEG)

Insight Report: Online public involvement session on the views of patients living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in relation to a Multiomic phenotyping of IBD.

A report summarising the insights of patients living with IBD about an Imperial BRC research project involving Multiomic phenotyping of IB