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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"fetal monitoring"”.
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Exploring the Relationships of Power, Attitudes regarding Intermittent Fetal Monitoring, and Perceived Barriers to Research Utilization with a Labor and Delivery Nurse's Attitude toward Patient Advocacy
… practice was the routine use of continuous fetal monitoring (CEFM) with low risk laboring women. CEFM is associated with worsened outcomes for the low risk laboring woman with no benefit to the newborn. In addition, this routine practice does not allow most laboring women the right to make …
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Accurate noninvasive monitoring of fetal tissue oxygenation level
Fetal blood oxygenation level serves as a critical indicator of fetal health throughout pregnancy and labor. However, existing clinical devices predominantly employ invasive techniques, posing risks to both the fetus and the mother. To address this concern, we present a noninvasive method for …
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Comparability of an innovative Doppler ultrasound fetal heart rate monitor to a pinard fetal stethoscope using cardiotocography as a standard to assess the fetal heart rate in singleton pregnancies during labour at Mowbray Maternity Hospital
… often preventable with appropriate maternal and fetal monitoring in labour. However, this remains a challenge in under-resourced settings, due to difficulties that accompany the use of a Pinard Fetal Stethoscope (PFS) which include user-dependence and lack of evidence based standardisation in …
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Real-time, Software-based Ultrasound Image Formation for Array Transducer Systems
… and multi-purposed, with uses ranging from fetal monitoring to cancer detection, medical ultrasound is one of the most widely utilized diagnostic tools in medicine today. Recent trends to proliferate its use and improve patient care require that ultrasound systems become more portable and …
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Team-Based Care To Support Physiologic Birth: A Review Of Literature
… care, defensive maternity practice, electronic fetal monitoring (EFM), and cesarean delivery. Intermittent auscultation (IA) was considered proxy for physiologic birth practice and was examined in the research comparing IA to EFM. The data were organized according to major content area then …
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A comparative study of caseload managed midwifery care and team midwifery
… induction or augmentation of labour, continuous fetal monitoring and systemic analgesia.<br/><br/>Key conclusions: Improvements in care from the maternal perspective could be attributed to the attitudes and personal philosophy of the midwife in her willingness to share information, perhaps more …
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Maternal posture for fetal malposition to improve labour and birth outcomes for mothers and their infants
… To assess current evidence-based practice for fetal malposition in labour; to investigate the incidence and outcomes of fetal malposition in New Zealand; and to assess the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of maternal posture for fetal malposition to improve maternal and infant …
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Hydrotherapy: The Effects on Length of Labor and Analgesia Use in Labor for the Nulliparous Woman
… pregnancy, and not requiring continuous fetal monitoring. There were forty-eight participants in the study. Thirty-three were in the experimental group and fifteen were in the control group.<br> The women in the experimental group were those who chose to use hydrotherapy as a means of …
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An audit of caesarean sections performed for suspected fetal distress at Mowbray Maternity Hospital in 2018
Background The cardiotocograph (CTG) is used for fetal monitoring antenatally and in labour, to detect potential fetal hypoxia and thus prevent perinatal morbidity and mortality. An abnormal CTG influences decisions clinicians make in terms of timing and mode of delivery, as the type of abnormality …
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A descriptive retrospective audit of the obstetric conditions which occur in mothers of babies with neonatal encephalopathy at Mowbray Maternity Hospital in 2016
… and prolonged first stage of labour (17.9%). Fetal monitoring at the MOUs was done according to protocol in 70% of patients in the latent phase but only 12.5% of those in the active phase of labour. At MMH, all patients in labour had Cardiotocograph (CTG) monitoring with 90.6% of CTGs being …
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i-MOM: Improving Maternal-fetal Outcome Monitoring
… in the United States is use of an electronic fetal monitor (EFM), which is employed to predict and eliminate hypoxic injury during birth. However, since inception of the EFM in the 1960s, incidence of hypoxic injury has remained nearly the same. Riddled with conflicting and confusing data, the …
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Universal ultrasound screening in the third trimester
… patients in total. Ultrasonic suspicion of fetal macrosomia was strongly predictive of the risk of delivering a large baby with the positive LRs (LR+) ranging from 7 to 12. However, it was only weakly predictive of the risk of shoulder dystocia with LR+ around 2. 13 studies of umbilical …
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Efecto de la glicemia materna en la monitoría electrónica fetal
Introducción: Después del ingreso de la monitoría fetal electrónica como estudio de bienestar fetal, se ha considerado por décadas que un aporte de carbohidratos a la gestante antes de la realización de la monitoría fetal influye en el reporte pero existen estudios que consideran que los niveles de …