False negatives and the CTG
How often is the CTG normal when it shouldn’t be?
New research
Population effects of introducing STAN technology
New research from Norway confirms no benefit from STAN systems. @EllenBlix
Fixing the CTG pattern: using intrauterine resuscitation maneuvers
Are we using appropriate approaches to managing women with an abnormal CTG in labour?
Can a little tickle help?
Does stimulating the fetus improve outcomes from CTG monitoring? Answers from a RCT.
What does it take to make CTG monitoring happen?
One third of intrapartum care is taken up by fiddling about with the CTG
Comparing intrapartum CTG monitoring guidelines
Which fetal monitoring guideline is the best one to use?
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
New horizons for fetal monitoring: Photoacoustic assessment of the fetal brain and placenta
There is increasing recognition that CTG monitoring hasn’t delivered on its promise to accurately identify the fetus who would benefit from early birth, and therefore has failed to improve perinatal outcomes. This has opened a space for researchers to begin to investigate novel approaches that might prove to be a better tool than the CTG. One of these novel technologies is photo-acoustic assessment. Kang and colleagues from Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, […]
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