Do bigger women benefit from intrapartum CTG monitoring?
CTG monitoring is often recommended for women with higher BMI. What does the evidence say?
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Does CTG monitoring make labour slower?
There is no doubt that standard “wired” CTG monitoring restricts mobility during labour and favours recumbent positions on the bed during labour (Watson, et al., 2022). I often hear people say that this leads to longer labours, contributing to the rise in caesarean section rate seen with CTG monitoring. This post explores the evidence for this from randomised controlled trials comparing intermittent auscultation with continuous CTG monitoring in labour. Labour […]
What are the gaps in our knowledge?
My wish list for new research about fetal monitoring in labour. @ProfJennyGamble
Deciding what to measure and why it matters
Measuring outcomes in fetal monitoring research: there’s more to it than at first glance.
The CTG as a networked agent
What do CTG machines actually do in a clinical setting?@ingrid_jepsen @EllenBlix @HelenCo02211683 @StineAdrian @MidwifeMaude
Language matters
I write about the importance of language from time to time. Here’s a collection of all these thoughts in the one place.
Using the Pinard stethoscope
There is much to learn from using the Pinard. @PayAase @MidwifeMaude @EllenBlix
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
Mysterious cats and CTG monitoring
I once wrote a post about Dr Who and alternative universes, highlighting the way that people make meaning of their individual experiences. It is important for health professionals 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 these biases to increase the chance that we […]
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