Failing at CTG interpretation
If you wouldn’t use runes to decide whether to do a cesarean section, why would you use a #CTG?
EFM
Electronic fetal monitoring
ST segment analysis and the caesarean section rate
Does #STAN reduce the #caesarean rate when #CTG monitoring is in use? New Australian research!
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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!
Keeping up with physiology research
If we don’t understand physiology, we don’t know what we are doing when we are monitoring the fetus. What’s the latest on physiological control of the fetal heart rate?
Brain changes and accelerations
Can #CTG changes predict the degree of severity of brain injury seen on #MRI? Yes. And is this information useful in practice? Not yet…. #HIE
Noninvasive fetal ECG – how does it compare with standard CTG?
Might it be feasible to do prolonged periods of #CTG monitoring at home? This new research helps to take another step to answering that question. #EFM #Antenatal #FetalMonitoring #NifECG
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