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Abi Merriel

@abimerriel.bsky.social
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Obstetrician, maternity researcher passionate about personalising maternity care. Proud mum. Find me in Liverpool!

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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
So exciting to share the results of the APT-Sepsis trial! 32% reduction in maternal mortality and severe morbidity. www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... Potential for huge impact with APT Sepsis implementation. Amazing job to the team & leadership of Prof Lissauer @livuninews.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
So exited that our long I process vaginal birth core information set is out today! doi.org/10.1111/1471... thank you to everyone who made it happen. We hope it can support conversations about birth choices! @liverpooluni.bsky.social @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social
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Sharing Tailored Obstetric Research & Knowledge (STORK) @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
What information do women/birthing people want&need to know about vaginal birth? Find out in @bjog.bsky.social who have today published the vaginal birth core information set! doi.org/10.1111/1471... amazing work from the @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social we hope this supports conversations about birth!
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Objective Spontaneous vaginal births are often the presumed choice, representing 45% of UK births. However, information about benefits and risks is inconsistently given, impacting decision-making an.....
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Beautiful setting for the British Intrapartum Care Society’s conference!! Really lovely start to the day from Susie Crowe! Looking forward to learning lots and sharing our research. @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Checkout the @bjog.bsky.social health equity issue loads of really interesting papers and includes our caesarean birth core information set doi.org/10.1111/1471... and risk communication survey doi.org/10.1111/1471...
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Linked article: This article is commented on by Walker, pp. 2040–2041 in this issue. To view this article visit https://doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.70012.
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Enjoyed sharing @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social at the International Labour and birth research conference today. Was great to discuss core info sets including our published doi.org/10.1111/1471... caesarean core info set and our risk communication work doi.org/10.1111/1471...
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drkeerthanaanand.bsky.social @drkeerthanaanand.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Are you a healthcare provider in the UK who either diagnoses, manages or follows up women who have had hypertensive disorders of pregnancy or gestational diabetes? Please complete this survey. redcap.link/CARE_staff @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social @abimerriel.bsky.social
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Sharing our systematics review about GDM and stillbirth examined across country income level! @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
BMFMS is off off off and away at the ICC in Belfast!
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Sharing Tailored Obstetric Research & Knowledge (STORK) @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Are you pregnant, planning a pregnancy, recently had a baby or a partner? We need your help to tell us what you think of communication of risks, especially uncommon ones, within maternity care. You can enter a prize draw for 1 of four £25 vouchers. For moreinfo: redcap.link/riskcertaint...
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Communication of risk certainty within maternity care
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Exciting at the RCOG annual academic meeting for @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social was Ben sharing for the first time our core information set for caesarean birth!
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
And not to forget old friends / collaborators from Bristol! Go Danya sharing ichoose!
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Then there’s the fantastic presentations at the RCOG annual academic meeting from other Liverpool colleagues
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
And there’s more posters about GDM risks and Induction-amazing job team….there’s still more to come tomorrow! @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Fantastic day at RCOG annual academic meeting! So many posters and presentations sharing our work!!! @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
📢 📢 The British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society abstract deadline for Belfast 8th-9th May has been extended to midnight on Thursday 13th February 2025 Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your research!! 🔬 Submit via: lnkd.in/eszrUx8w lnkd.in/eyY5i7PU
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Excited to share this work building the case that high quality balanced information can form an important part of pregnancy journeys-work to improve and standardise antenatal education is needed!
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Catriona Waitt @catrionawaitt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Congratulations to @jennymriches who today passed her PhD viva and also published her second paper in @GlobalHealthBMJ in the space of a month! Her thesis has identified key areas where intervention, often simple, may save lives! gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Delighted to share this study where we found that antenatal education impacts expectations of birth doi.org/10.1186/s128...
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A qualitative exploration of women’s expectations of birth and knowledge of birth interventions following antenatal education - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Expectations of birth, and whether they are met, influence postnatal psychological wellbeing. Intrapartum interventions, for example induction of labour, are increasing due to a changing pr...
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Sharing Tailored Obstetric Research & Knowledge (STORK) @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Read our study sharing the experiences of 46 women's antenatal education. Birth expectations are informed by Antenatal Education - if it isn't balanced - a mismatch between expectations and experience may be precipitated. An antenatal education curriculum is needed! doi.org/10.1186/s128...
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A qualitative exploration of women’s expectations of birth and knowledge of birth interventions following antenatal education - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Expectations of birth, and whether they are met, influence postnatal psychological wellbeing. Intrapartum interventions, for example induction of labour, are increasing due to a changing pr...
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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A qualitative exploration of women’s expectations of birth & knowledge of birth interventions following antenatal education Anna Davies, Michael Larkin, Lucy Willis, Narendra Mampitiya, Mary Lynch, Miriam Toolan, @abimerriel.bsky.social et al bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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A qualitative exploration of women’s expectations of birth and knowledge of birth interventions following antenatal education - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Expectations of birth, and whether they are met, influence postnatal psychological wellbeing. Intrapartum interventions, for example induction of labour, are increasing due to a changing pr...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Vaccines stopped polio.
The image is a graph titled "Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2019," from Our World in Data. It shows the annual number of polio cases (in red) and deaths (in green). A sharp decline in both cases and deaths occurs after the introduction of the polio vaccine in 1957, which is marked with an arrow labeled "Vaccine introduced in 1957." The graph illustrates the dramatic impact of vaccination on reducing polio cases and fatalities over time.
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 15/12/2024
💉👧 Vaccines cut long COVID risk in kids A @thelancet.bsky.social study of over 113,000 people shows the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine reduced long COVID risk in children and teens. 95% effective during Delta and 60–75% during Omicron. 🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... #SciComm #VaccinesWork #COVID 🧪
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Real-world effectiveness and causal mediation study of BNT162b2 on long COVID risks in children and adolescents
Our study suggests that BNT162b2 was effective in reducing risk of long COVID outcomes in children and adolescents during the Delta and Omicron periods. The mediation analysis indicates the vaccine’s effectiveness is primarily derived from its role in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Roll up roll up! Have you received NHS care and had gestational diabetes, raised blood pressure or pre-eclampsia in the last 5 years? If so please consider completing this survey! redcap.liverpool.ac.uk/surveys/?s=9...
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Mapping the understanding and communication of the long-term risks of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes among women
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Roll up roll up! Have you received NHS care and had gestational diabetes, raised blood pressure or pre-eclampsia in the last 5 years? If so please consider completing this survey! redcap.liverpool.ac.uk/surveys/?s=9...
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Mapping the understanding and communication of the long-term risks of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes among women
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Useful animation to accompany the updated RCOG consent guidelines www.rcog.org.uk/guidance/bro... @storkresearchgroup.bsky.social @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social
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Planned Caesarean Birth (Consent Advice No. 14) | RCOG
This guidance is for healthcare professionals to aid the provision of appropriate and balanced information about the potential benefits, risks and alternative modes of childbirth to those considering ...
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A new study in AJOG shows that maternal RSV vaccination earlier in the approved 32-36 week window (at least 5 weeks prior to delivery) results in the highest transplacental transfer of maternal antibodies to the neonate. buff.ly/3UOeFR2 #Medsky #ObGynsky #Pedsky #IDsky #Neosky 🛟
A pregnant woman in a green dress with a orange necklace smiling and holding her belly. she is in front of a picket fence.
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Amazing work @jennyriches.bsky.social important findings about burden of death following CS in Malawi
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Jenny Riches @jennyriches.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
We found a high burden of maternal death following CS in this low-resource setting, particularly related to infection. Multiple health systems factors contributed.There is urgent need to develop and trial interventions to improve the safety of CS in such settings #maternalhealth
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Maternal mortality following caesarean section in a low-resource setting: a National Malawian Surveillance Study
Background Caesarean section (CS) is the most common major surgery conducted globally, with rates rising. CS also contributes to maternal morbidity and mortality, with increased risks in low-resource ...
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I just listened to my amazing colleagues discuss the mirena coil on their new podcast between two ovaries! Really worth a listen for some mirena myth busting open.spotify.com/episode/4lHw...
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Episode 1: Myths about the Mirena Coil
Between 2 Ovaries · Episode
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The Options Study @theoptionsstudy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Have you had a baby in the UK in the last 5 years? Follow the link below to help us understand the care which is currently received for gestational diabetes, raised blood pressure & preeclampsia redcap.liverpool.ac.uk/surveys/?s=9... #gestationaldiabetes #hypertension #preeclampsia #pregnancy #nhs
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In #WorldAMRawarenessWeek we’re very excited to share our reflections on AMR and digital innovations in maternity and neonatal care doi.org/10.1016/S258...
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Abi Merriel @abimerriel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Excited to be heading to the @nihr.bsky.social academy conference today in Leeds. Looking forward to meeting lots of colleagues and being inspired!
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