Norman Swan
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15,786 appearances
142 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard 18 Sep
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's like the Hoopingkov vaccine.
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I say to patients all the time, Norman, that it's about the antibodies going across the placenta to the baby, so when they come out of the womb, they have some protection, a seatbelt on.
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And the takeaway is really that in the infants who had RSV, where the mother had been vaccinated in pregnancy, there was significant benefit.
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So there was a seventy eight to eighty one percent reduction in RSV associated hospital admissions in the babies whose mothers had been immunised.
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So fairly significant
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And
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You can get it from twenty eight weeks of pregnancy.
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The Hooping Cough vaccine we tend to do from twenty to thirty two weeks of pregnancy.
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So most of my patients will come in at thirty weeks and go, PRIA, can I please have RSV and Hooping Cough?
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They're protected against both and they're in the window for most.
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I've
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Yeah, they're usually done with that.
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They've already had that normally.
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Yeah, correct.
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But but this just shows how effective the vaccination is.
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And there's of course that other monoclonal antibody for babies who are born whose mothers were not vaccinated in pregnancy, or for babies who are already still higher risk.
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Oh, do you think so?
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You stop being recruited, but many GPs will continue after discussion with the patient.
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I I have to say, w the deprescribing is actually a part of care.
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Look, you can see my hackles have gone up.
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