Routine umbilical cord gas analysis – is it worth it?
Routine cord blood gas analysis – harmful or helpful?
Tag Archive for ‘Evidence’
Does CTG monitoring work for women with risk factors?
Today’s post shares the back story behind our paper. #CTG #EFM #PerinatalMortality #CP
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What would a good fetal monitoring policy look like?
Last week I published a post about why I’m not on a guideline writing group. I mentioned that I sometimes provide anonymous gentle suggestions for people who are working on fetal monitoring guidelines about how to make theirs better. You might like to get a copy of the fetal monitoring guideline where you work / where you support women to birth / where you plan to birth and read the […]
Why I’m not on a guideline writing group
From time to time, I get feedback from people who are surprised / disappointed / angry / annoyed that I’m not a member of a guideline writing group taking on fetal monitoring guidelines. It is true – I’m not. It seems like a reasonable thing to expect me to do, right? I’m across the evidence and I often write about what is wrong with existing guidelines. Why would I not […]
Reviewing the evidence for Intermittent Auscultation
I was excited to see a new paper, setting out the evidence for intermittent auscultation in labour (Anderson, et al., 2023). It was published in a journal for US based nurse-midwives, so it relates to the context of care in that country. Let’s see how they did in terms of getting the facts right. Is their evidence accurate? They wrote that: All this is correct, except that one of the […]
Do bigger women benefit from intrapartum CTG monitoring?
CTG monitoring is often recommended for women with higher BMI. What does the evidence say?
What are the gaps in our knowledge?
My wish list for new research about fetal monitoring in labour. @ProfJennyGamble
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
Birth Small Talk 