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Unintended consequences of common-sense choices: Maternal heart rate monitoring on the CTG

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.

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Maternal heart rate recording to improve outcomes

Many things related to fetal monitoring in labour have been introduced because they seemed like a good idea, but never properly evaluated to determine whether they work (like “Fresh Eyes” checks, and central fetal monitoring). There is increasing recognition that one of the reasons for poor outcomes when CTG monitoring is used is not realising the heart rate being recorded is that of the woman and not her fetus. Many […]

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