Sentences with phrase «of electronic fetal monitoring»

Routine use of electronic fetal monitoring is not in the best interests of either.»

He believes we should not extend the use of electronic fetal monitoring to women at low risk, nor should we continue to use it as often as we currently do.

«Limiting the use of electronic fetal monitoring to the very highest risk labours may be justifiable, but even then the balance of benefits and harms is uncertain,» he adds.

They blame this increase on the introduction of electronic fetal monitoring, and the decrease in breech births and forceps births.

The rate of electronic fetal monitoring, C - sections, forceps or vacuum delivery, and epidurals were also much lower with home births.

This dramatic increase was a result of several changes in the practice environment, including the introduction of electronic fetal monitoring and a decrease in operative vaginal deliveries and attempts at vaginal breech deliveries (8 — 11).

In the era of electronic fetal monitoring, among neonates born to nulliparous women, adverse neonatal outcomes generally have not been associated with the duration of the second stage of labor.

In the United States, Canada, and recently England, major reviews of the evidence have concluded that electronic fetal monitoring should be reserved for high risk pregnancies.18 Use of electronic fetal monitoring has increased worldwide, however, in both low and high risk groups.

Continuous cardiotocography (CTG) as a form of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) for fetal assessment during labor.

Not exact matches

Many practitioners and hospitals prefer that laboring women be attached to an electronic fetal monitor continuously throughout active labor and birth regardless of risk factors.

Moreover, in out - of - hospital settings, there is likely less antepartum testing and no continuous electronic intrapartum fetal monitoring, both of which may have affected adverse outcomes.

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I have read hundreds of studies that give me confidence to say — no, don't cut the cord right away or no, please only monitor the baby intermitently (electronic fetal monitors DO NOT statisitically save babies, have a high false positve rate, and are associated with higher rates of pain medication, pitocin, and C section).

Use of inappropriate electronic fetal monitoring perhaps illustrates the extent and pervasiveness of medicalised practice in Western maternity care.

* induction of labour (starting your labour artificially) * augmentation of labour (speeding up your labour) * artificial rupture of the membranes (ARM) * using medication for pain relief * electronic fetal monitoring — external CTG or internal fetal scalp * managed third stage of labour (delivering the placenta) * coached pushing * restricted birthing positions * immediate cord clamping * seperation of mother and baby in surgery / recovery

The signs of oxygen deprivation would likely have been diagnosed with electronic fetal monitoring.

But electronic fetal monitoring provides a wealth of information that can not be obtained by listening, and that allows for a more comprehensive view of fetal well being.

A prospective comparison of selective and universal electronic fetal monitoring in 34 995 pregnancies.

Electronic fetal monitors limit the movement of the mother, and this can slow labour down.

You'll also receive an IV, as well as continuous electronic fetal monitoring of each baby for the duration of your labor.

However know that throughout the process your baby will be continuously monitored via electronic fetal monitoring, which will help your practitioner to assess how he or she is dealing with the stress of induced labor and take steps to protect both of you.

In a vaginal breech delivery, electronic fetal monitoring will be used to monitor the baby's heartbeat throughout the course of labor.

There is some evidence that the use of continuous electronic fetal monitoring may lead to increased false positives for fetal hypoxemia and to resulting caesarean sections.21, 22

Ninety - four percent of the women had electronic fetal monitoring (93 % of those women were monitored continuously).

This includes the availability of blood and fresh - frozen plasma for transfusion; anesthesia, radiology, ultrasound, electronic fetal heart rate monitoring and laboratory services available on a 24 - hour basis; resuscitation and stabilization of all inborn neonates; nursery; and other services that are not available in the home setting.

Their particular concern is the «trends towards excessive, unnecessary, or inappropriate use of obstetric interventions» (p. 2178), including unnecessary ultrasound examinations, routine electronic fetal monitoring, routine episiotomy, high rates of labour induction and augmentation, and non-medically indicated CS.

What is most unsettling is that many of the heart rate abnormalities are easily resolved with simple measures such as position changes, which the mother is hindered from doing while attached to the electronic fetal monitor.

Compared with women who planned a hospital birth with a midwife or physician in attendance, those who planned a home birth were significantly less likely to experience any of the obstetric interventions we assessed, including electronic fetal monitoring, augmentation of labour, assisted vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery and episiotomy (Table 3).

To assess the frequency and length of your contractions as well as your baby's heart rate, you'll need to have continuous electronic fetal monitoring during an induced labor.

As an example, consider the intervention of continuous electronic fetal monitoring.

And best of all, breathing is the one coping strategy that can't be taken away from you — even if you're stuck in bed attached to an electronic fetal monitor and intravenous fluids.

One of the more widely used methods of monitoring is electronic fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring.

They acknowledge that electronic fetal monitoring increases the rate of instrumental delivery (such as use of forceps) and caesarean section, but argue that increased intervention «may not be entirely undesirable, given that appropriately timed intervention is likely to avoid neonatal hypoxia, seizures, and perinatal death.»

Electronic fetal monitoring is often used during labour to detect unborn babies at risk of brain damage (neonatal encephalopathy) from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia).

Given that electronic fetal monitoring does not prevent perinatal deaths, «the excess of subsequent deaths caused by the increased risk of caesarean section is a major concern.»

Electronic fetal monitoring increases the risk of women having a caesarean section, which is not a benign operation, he writes.

He argues that «most of the fetuses identified as being at risk of hypoxia are not» and highlights a review of trial data for nearly 37,000 women that found no difference in perinatal mortality between labours with electronic fetal monitoring versus intermittent auscultation.

But Peter Brocklehurst, Professor of women's health at Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, says «the more we use electronic fetal monitoring, the more harm we do, with little evidence of benefit.»

Obstetrics specialists, Edward Mullins and Christoph Lees, at Imperial College London say that failure to use continuous electronic fetal monitoring «amounts to a misguided blinding of the clinician to the clinical state of the fetus.»

In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration granted conditional approval of the STAN S31 device for use in addition to the electronic fetal heart rate monitoring.

Electronic fetal monitoring is used in more than 85 percent of the 4 million live births in the U.S. every year.

If the baby is showing distress on the electronic fetal heart rate monitor, reasonable care requires the nurse to discontinue the use of Pitocin.