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, […]
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
Being with woman, not with machine
CTGs draw attention from the woman to the technology. Can different technology solve the problem?
Could this be the solution? Transabdominal fetal oximetry
Could measuring oxygen levels of the fetus directly be the answer we are looking for? @ChristineEast2
Birth Small Talk 