Cardiotocograph monitoring
Early last year I wrote a post about Dr Who and alternative universes, highlighting the way that people make meaning of their individual experiences. For those of us who are health practitioners, it is important to reflect on the way we make meaning because it is easy to slip into what are known as cognitive biases. We can’t always avoid these, but it does help to have examples of such […]
“Being K2ed”: an unintended consequence of central fetal monitoring.
Fetal lactate testing in labour:. Are we making the same mistakes but hoping to get a different result?
Questions remain about the safety of central fetal monitoring systems.
When you put people back into clinical guidelines you can see previously invisible assumptions.
Three strikes and you are out! How a guideline meant to make maternity care safer undermined good communication.
More evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of intrapartum monitoring with intermittent auscultation.
My doctoral thesis is now out from embargo and freely available. Reading a doctoral thesis is hardly everyone’s idea of a great way to spend an evening (or several), but if you do decide to read it let me know what you think!
Tell me about CTG education in your part of the world. What does it look like? Is it mandatory?
Low oxygen levels in labour are considered to place the fetus at risk for permanent injury. One of the organs in the body that rely on high levels of oxygen supply is the heart. Physiological reflexes that manifest as CTG changes are, in part, protective for the fetal heart as they redirect blood from other parts of the body to the heart and brain. Historically, low oxygen levels in labour […]
