Re: OB:Home Births in Australia

From: R L Meisel (mfm1@pld.com)
Sat Aug 29 22:23:19 1998


>
>Actually, I beg to differ. We make a practice of listening through a
>contraction and just after, so with the combination of the read-out on
>the doppler and a trained ear, we can "hear" early's and late's and
>variables. Not as precise, for sure, as a printout, but does tell us
>more than just "baseline" tachys and bradys.
>
>>>I would hope that you're not routinely using electronic fetal monitoring
>>on labouring women.
>>
>--
>Kathi Wilson BHSc RM

Kathi,

Perhaps I'm being a pain but...

Your description of fetal monitoring is intermittent EFM ie doppler with automatic rate read out. The only difference is you don't have a "strip" to record for you. Ascultation is listening with a fetoscope.

Best Wishes R L Meisel, MD mailto:mfm1@pld.com





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