Stethoscope Remains Best Way to Monitor Fetal Distress During Labor

by faithgibson October 30, 2023

April 7, 2021 Stethoscope Remains Best Way to Monitor Fetal Distress During Labor Review of 33 studies, including seven monitoring methods, shows no benefit from newer strategies Review of 33 studies, including seven monitoring methods, shows no benefit from newer strategies WEDNESDAY, April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Listening to a fetal heart rate using […]

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Literature review ~ Intrapartum cardiotocograph monitoring (EFM) & perinatal outcomes for women at risk for complications

by faithgibson September 29, 2023

Note-2-self ~ copied to AI project on CALM auscultation incl. providing background info on EFM (last edited 10-25-2023) Review article from Australia posted by ScienceDirect.com Editor’s Preliminary Notes: In UK and Australia, what we “Yanks” describe as an “electronic fetal monitoring” (EFM for short) is called “CTG“, which is an abbreviation used for cardio – […]

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“Remarks on the Employment of Females as Practitioners in Midwifery” 1820, Cummings & Hilliard, Boston

by faithgibson August 21, 2023

Originally published in Boston in 1820 by Cummings and Hilliard A physician provides advice to other doctors about why “females as practitioners in midwifery” are unfit to attend births and should be supplanted by medical doctors The following are excerpts from a journal article written by a physician and originally published more than 150 years […]

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Increased elective induction of labor @ 39 weeks after publication of ARRIVE study recommending induction did NOT lower the rate of C-sections and hypertension for 1st time mothers

by faithgibson August 19, 2023

Articles   Increased elective induction of labor @ 39 weeks after publication of ARRIVE did not lower C-section, hypertensive disorder rates for 1st-time mothers Excerpt from article: ” …. following the publication of “ARRIVE” there was an overall 42% increase in elective induction of labor …. … however the associated improvements in outcomes reported in […]

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Transcribed interview by Christiania Amanpour of Frank Schaeffer, filmmaker & son of anti-abortion evangelical scholar Francis Schaeffer

by faithgibson August 6, 2023

This program originally aired on the Public Broadcasting Company (PBS) on May 5, 2022. Christiania Amanpour interview of Frank Schaeffer, son of the famous and very influential evangelical scholar, Francis Schaeffer. As a young man, Frank adopted his father’s anti-abortion beliefs and used his talents to make a number of very popular anti-abortion films that […]

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