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WHAT THE DUBLIN TRIAL SUGGESTS ABOUT BENEFITS; WHAT COMMENTS SUGGEST ABOUT WHO SHOULD INTERPRET THE TRACINGS
Author(s) -
Lumley Judith
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.1986.tb01042.x
Subject(s) - electronic fetal monitoring , auscultation , medicine , psychology , pediatrics , audiology , cardiology , fetal heart rate , heart rate , blood pressure
The Dublin Trial will probably not alter firmly held beliefs about whether electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) is better than auscultation. The neonatal seizures that EFM apparently prevented were those that did not result in serious neurologic deficit at 1 year of age. If, as had been suggested, EFM tracings are hardly ever correctly interpreted, then EFM should hardly ever be used.