Is short-term-variation of fetal-heart-rate a better predictor of fetal acidaemia in labour? A feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Continuous intrapartum fetal monitoring is challenging and its clinical benefits are debated. The project evaluated whether short-term-variation (STV) and other computerised fetal heart rate (FHR) parameters (baseline FHR, long-term-variation, accelerations and decelerations) predicted acidaemia at birth. The aims of the study were to assess the changes in FHR pattern during labour and determine the feasibility of undertaking a definitive trial by reporting the practicalities of using the monitoring device, participant recruitment, data collection and staff training.

Methods

200 high-risk women carrying a term singleton, non-anomalous fetus, requiring continuous FHR monitoring in labour were consented to participate from the Jessop Wing maternity unit, Sheffield,

SUBMITTER: Kapaya H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7398510 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature