What is CTG monitoring?
Today’s post takes us back to the basics and discusses what CTG monitoring is.
EFM
Electronic fetal monitoring
Listening to the fetus: the history of fetal heart rate monitoring
In 1819 Kergaradec wrote “it seemed to me that I was hearing the movements of a watch placed very close to me”. It is probably fair to claim this is the moment fetal heart rate monitoring came into existence.
How to guess fetal blood pressure
Can you accurately guess fetal blood pressure from the heart rate pattern? #AI #CTG #EFM #FetalMonitoring #Physiology #Sheep
Failing at CTG interpretation
If you wouldn’t use runes to decide whether to do a cesarean section, why would you use a #CTG?
ST segment analysis and the caesarean section rate
Does #STAN reduce the #caesarean rate when #CTG monitoring is in use? New Australian research!
It’s finally ready!
It’s here! The course you have all been asking for. Enrolments are open for a limited time. Get in quick!
Feminist critiques of intrapartum CTG monitoring
Exploring the values, roles, and meanings attached to fetal monitoring.
Maternal stress and the fetal heart rate
What is the relationship between maternal stress and fetal heart rate patterns? And what does this mean for maternity care?
How do CTG guidelines impact doctors’ decisions?
All aspects of maternity care arise as consequences of the decisions that imperfect humans make, often structured by imperfect guidelines, derived from an imperfect or absent research base.
The relationship between maternal anaemia and fetal heart rate patterns
Maternal #anaemia reduces the incidence of abnormal #CTG patterns. That’s a surprise!
Birth Small Talk 