Re: Oxifirst?

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Fri May 19 07:45:16 2000


well - this will be more objective than looking at FHR tracing. but following the sats will seem like watching the stock tickers on cnbc - you'll always wonder if you moved too soon or waited too long. in the 70's at bellevue we played with a continuous tissue ph monitor which seemed to vary with the tracings - this will doubtless be a useful tool but the true predictive value remains to be demonstrated. also, will this be used to determine the need for full fetal blood gas analysis, similar to the o2 sats in anesthesia and icu or will this be used as an end-point discriminator? stay tuned.

Art

At Thu, 18 May 2000, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: >
>In a message dated 5/18/00 9:32:55 PM, gklein@icsi.net writes:
>
>>http://www.healthymotherandbaby.com/oxifirst/index.html
>>
>>any thoughts?
>
>Seems to be analogous to the pulse-ox machines they stick on your finger.
>Which means it's not 100% accurate... So we'll have to see how things shake
>out.
>
>I for one would be interested to be able to see the baby's O2 saturation
>real-time... as long as it's accurate...
>
>Joe P.

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art fougner, md

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