Re: Oxygen for antepartum complicatoins

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Wed Dec 17 10:40:08 1997


At Tue, 16 Dec 97, Malcolm Griffiths wrote: >
>I have a question for list participants about something which has been
>haunting me for a day and a half.
>
>Is there any proven or known benefit of supplemental maternal oxygen
>administration for fetal conditions such as oligihydramnios, fetal growth
>retardation, high umbilical doppler resistance indices and similar
>conditions?
>
>I have relocated to a an area where this is commonplace. Patients with
>these conditions are given about 4 liters of oxygen by nasal prongs
>continuously for days and sometimes weeks. Is there good evidence for
>such therapy.
>
>Thanks for your answers.
>
>Gary E. Kleinman, MD

can't give the exact references now, but the leading proponents are the UK group - ie Campbell and Nicolaides.

good luck with it and let us know how it works in the real, not necessarily evidence-based world. ;)

art >MFM - Genetics

--
art fougner, md
SonoScan/Genetic Sciences
forest hills, ny
evsono@pipeline.com




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