In recent years, there’s been increased awareness about the possibility of confusion between maternal and fetal heart rates during CTG monitoring. This new research indicates that adding maternal heart rate data to the CTG might be having a negative impact on CTG interpretation. Read the details on the blog – including my suggestions for how to solve the problem.
Last week I explained what the AAT was. This week I want to share research that compared one midwife against another, to see if they were able to generate an accurate assessment of the fetal heart rate pattern, and were able to detect accelerations as reliably as a CTG machine. If you missed last week’s post and don’t know what I’m talking about – you can find it here. How […]
There has been a lot of research about whether health professionals agree on what to call the pattern on a CTG during labour. And the experts all agree, that the experts don’t agree. That is to say, there is a troubling degree of variability in how maternity professionals interpret the same CTG pattern. This is something I have written about before (here, here, and here). Until recently, I had never […]
If you wouldn’t use runes to decide whether to do a cesarean section, why would you use a #CTG?
All aspects of maternity care arise as consequences of the decisions that imperfect humans make, often structured by imperfect guidelines, derived from an imperfect or absent research base.
Whose fault is it when we can’t agree on the CTG? #EFM #CTG #CTGInterpretation #CentralFetalMonitoring
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