Induction of labor as compared with serial antenatal monitoring in post-term pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial

ME Hannah, WJ Hannah, J Hellmann… – … New England Journal of …, 1992 – Mass Medical Soc
Background The rates of perinatal mortality and neonatal morbidity are higher for post-term pregnancies than for term pregnancies. It is not known, however, whether the induction of …

Electronic fetal monitoring: past, present, and future

MJ Stout, AG Cahill – Clinics in perinatology, 2011 – perinatology.theclinics.com
The use of continuous intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) with cardiotocography in labor and delivery units has become the rule, not the exception. More than 3 million …

An assessment of continuous fetal heart rate monitoring in labor: a randomized trial

IM Kelso, RJ Parsons, GF Lawrence, SS Arora… – American journal of …, 1978 – Elsevier
Intrapartum continuous fetal heart rate monitoring has been routinely performed at the Jessop Hospital for Women for some years. However, no controlled trials had ever been …

Effect of fetal monitoring on neonatal death rates

RR Neutra, SE FienbergS Greenland… – New England Journal …, 1978 – Mass Medical Soc
We analyzed data from 15,846 live-born infants to assess the effect of electronic fetal monitoring on neonatal death rates. The crude neonatal death rate was 1.7 times higher in …

Intrapartum electronic fetal heart rate monitoring versus intermittent auscultation: a meta-analysis

AM Vintzileos, DJ Nochimson, ER Guzman… – Obstetrics & …, 1995 – Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To use a meta-analysis of all published randomized trials to determine whether the use of continuous electronic fetal heart rate monitoring (EFM) as the main method of …

Electronic fetal monitoring as a public health screening program: the arithmetic of failure

DA Grimes, JF Peipert – Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2010 – journals.lww.com
Electronic fetal monitoring has failed as a public health screening program. Nevertheless, most of the four million low-risk women giving birth in the United States each year continue …

Intrapartum fetal surveillance: the role of fetal scalp blood sampling

SL Clark, RH Paul – American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 1985 – Elsevier
Continuous electronic fetal heart rate monitoring and fetal scalp blood sampling have traditionally played a complementary role in intrapartum fetal surveillance. Nevertheless …