Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients monitored with intermittent auscultation vs. other fetal surveillance types had a lower risk for ...
Newer is not always better; a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) led by researchers at the University of Warwick shows that simple fetal heartbeat monitoring is still the best method ...
Electronic fetal monitoring is often used during labor to detect unborn babies at risk of brain damage (neonatal encephalopathy) from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia). In the UK, continuous monitoring is ...
Intermittent auscultation, in which the baby’s heartbeat is monitored using a sonic aid or Doppler probe, outperforms more modern methods at reducing the number of emergency caesarean sections in ...
Re “Doctors Stick With Unreliable Medical Tool to Justify C-Sections” (front page, Nov. 7): As the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, I found that this article, ...
Most women who give birth in Australia are monitored with CTG. But it might not be the best approach
Kirsten Small is affiliated with the Transforming Maternity Care Collaborative. She is a member of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Perinatal ...
Persistent fetal bradycardia noted in the antenatal period can occur secondary to maternal conditions, fetal cardiac structural defects, or from congenital heart block. Fetal bradycardia can be ...
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