Comparing intrapartum CTG monitoring guidelines
Which fetal monitoring guideline is the best one to use?
EFM
Electronic fetal monitoring
What’s the deal with early decelerations and head compression?
Why is it no longer OK to teach that early decelerations are due to head compression?
What’s new in research?
Post term risks, colour coded CTG interpretation, anaemia, and bias – research that caught my eye recently
Four things every person working in maternity care needs to know about CTGs
Here are the four things I wish everyone working in maternity care knew about CTG monitoring
Being with woman, not with machine
CTGs draw attention from the woman to the technology. Can different technology solve the problem?
Could this be the solution? Transabdominal fetal oximetry
Could measuring oxygen levels of the fetus directly be the answer we are looking for? @ChristineEast2
Thru the Pinard podcast: Talking about PhDs
I caught up with midwife and academic Liz McNeill recently. She hosts the Thru the Pinard podcast which aims to support midwives (and perhaps the occasional obstetrician even!) who are navigating the wonderful world of doctoral research. We talked about lots of things, including the importance of working with a great supervisory team and how important it is to never PhD alone. You can listen to our conversation here. Follow […]
Physiological CTG interpretation – I have questions
The history of maternity care is littered with stories of half-baked science that becomes embedded in practice and only too late is discovered to be ineffective and challenging to step away from.
“Safety theatre”: fetal monitoring and faulty logic
Catherine Williams recently introduced me to the term “safety theatre”. New research points out why investing in CTG monitors and education won’t improve safety. @BerksMaternity
Mysterious cats and CTG 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 […]
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