Fixing the CTG pattern: using intrauterine resuscitation maneuvers

Are we using appropriate approaches to managing women with an abnormal CTG in labour?
Are we using appropriate approaches to managing women with an abnormal CTG in labour?
Does stimulating the fetus improve outcomes from CTG monitoring? Answers from a RCT.
One third of intrapartum care is taken up by fiddling about with the CTG
Which fetal monitoring guideline is the best one to use?
Why is it no longer OK to teach that early decelerations are due to head compression?
Post term risks, colour coded CTG interpretation, anaemia, and bias – research that caught my eye recently
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, […]
Here are the four things I wish everyone working in maternity care knew about CTG monitoring