Is computerised interpretation of the CTG a cost-effective option?
Computerised interpretation of the #CTG with #INFANT doesn’t save healthcare costs. It is time to abandon it.
New research
Oxygen and fetal heart rate abnormalities
Don’t assume that because something is standard practice in your part of the world that it is based in sound evidence.
Customised growth charts and stillbirth prevention: New research
Personalised growth charts don’t seem to be the solution we hoped for. #GAP #StillbirthPrevention
Challenging the mechanical view of birth
Women and babies continue to get on with the task of birth, even though science hasn’t quite worked out how they do it.
Is more technology the solution to fetal monitoring?
The thinking that went into the creation of CTG monitoring was itself fundamentally flawed.
CoVid19 and the CTG
Making blanket recommendations to use CTG monitoring for women who test positive for CoVid19 is not good science.
If fetal movement monitoring on its own doesn’t work, will adding a blood test to it improve outcomes?
It is heartening to see that care is being taken to ensure that rigorous research is being done before introducing a new test into practice.
What stops clinicians from using intermittent auscultation?
Research published this week by Chuey, De Vries, Dal Cin, and Low (2020) explored facilitators and barriers to the use of intermittent auscultation (IA) rather than intrapartum CTG monitoring. The authors pointed out that: Despite evidence-based guidelines from professional associations recommending IA, and warning against the use of continuous monitoring, healthy individuals in labour are rarely monitored intermittently. The harms of routine EFM use are well established, yet it continues […]
Fetal movement monitoring and stillbirth prevention: What’s new in research?
Does teaching women to focus on the movements of the fetus prevent stillbirth, or does it create a new set of problems?
Birth Small Talk 