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A randomized trial of weekly cardiotocography in highrisk obstetric patients
Author(s) -
LUMLEY JUDITH,
LESTER ARLENE,
ANDERSON IAN,
RENOU PETER,
WOOD CARL
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1983.tb06439.x
Subject(s) - cardiotocography , medicine , apgar score , randomized controlled trial , perinatal mortality , obstetrics , population , pregnancy , fetus , genetics , environmental health , biology
Summary. A randomized clinical trial of once‐weekly antenatal fetal heart rate monitoring in 539 high‐risk patients could find no benefit of monitoring in terms of perinatal mortality, morbidity or Apgar score. The previously well‐documented association between abnormal antenatal fetal heart rate traces and low Apgar score was confirmed. A detailed case review showed that in this population monitoring was irrelevant to almost all of the 13 perinatal deaths.