What we don’t know about lactate might be harmful
We really have no idea what we are doing when it comes to fetal blood sampling during labour. Maybe we should stop doing it.
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When the CTG is not normal, should you turn on STAN or check the fetal pH?
CTG monitoring is in use during a woman’s labour. The fetal heart rate pattern is now abnormal. As her maternity professional, you know that the positive predictive value of the CTG is low, and want to avoid caesarean section unless it is going to improve the fetal outcome. And you don’t want to misidentify when caesarean section is a great idea and as a result have an avoidable poor outcome […]
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