Risks of CTG monitoring: Part 3
Does CTG monitoring generate more harm than benefit for babies? Here’s the evidence….
CTG
Cardiotocograph monitoring
Risks of CTG monitoring: Part 2
What are women’s experiences with intrapartum CTG monitoring? Sadly, we don’t actually know….
Oxygen and fetal heart rate abnormalities
Don’t assume that because something is standard practice in your part of the world that it is based in sound evidence.
Risks of CTG monitoring: Part 1
It’s just a CTG – it can’t hurt to do one. Or can it? This week’s post explored the risks of CTG use.
Is more technology the solution to fetal monitoring?
The thinking that went into the creation of CTG monitoring was itself fundamentally flawed.
CoVid19 and the CTG
Making blanket recommendations to use CTG monitoring for women who test positive for CoVid19 is not good science.
Power and the Cardiotocograph
I’ve just uploaded the final version of my PhD thesis. I thought I would share the opening of it with you.
Let’s just pop you on a trace. A reflection on language.
Is it OK to manipulate the information we share with birthing women about fetal monitoring so they do what we want?
The invention of the CTG machine: the history of fetal heart rate monitoring
Faith in technology, commercial interests, and liberalisation of tort law had more to do with the introduction of CTG monitoring than research evidence did.
