Reading of fetal heart rate (FHR) tracing during labor remains one of the most controversial and problematic issues in Obstetrics. The incorrect interpretation of CTG can be due to errors and pitfalls. Some common errors are related to the incorrect use of oxytocin, specifically to the failure to recognize tachysystole, to correct it and to use oxytocin to accelerate labor when the fetal heart rate tracing is not reassuring. A common error is also the incorrect interpretation of deceleration that leads to unnecessary and often dangerous interventions, despite the clarification of the significance of decelerations, that in themself are not a sign of impending acidosis, except when they are accompanied by loss of variability. Another potential error that can be identified as a pitfall is the transition from fetal to maternal heart rate (MHR) recording. The misidentification of MHR as FHR can potentially mask pathological FHR traces, appearing as a falsely reassuring trace.
Errors and pitfalls in reading the cardiotocographic tracing / Di Tommaso, Mariarosaria; Seravalli, Viola; Petraglia, Felice. - In: MINERVA GINECOLOGICA. - ISSN 1827-1650. - ELETTRONICO. - (2019), pp. 1-3. [10.23736/S0026-4784.18.04336-8]
Errors and pitfalls in reading the cardiotocographic tracing
Di Tommaso, Mariarosaria;Seravalli, Viola;Petraglia, Felice
2019
Abstract
Reading of fetal heart rate (FHR) tracing during labor remains one of the most controversial and problematic issues in Obstetrics. The incorrect interpretation of CTG can be due to errors and pitfalls. Some common errors are related to the incorrect use of oxytocin, specifically to the failure to recognize tachysystole, to correct it and to use oxytocin to accelerate labor when the fetal heart rate tracing is not reassuring. A common error is also the incorrect interpretation of deceleration that leads to unnecessary and often dangerous interventions, despite the clarification of the significance of decelerations, that in themself are not a sign of impending acidosis, except when they are accompanied by loss of variability. Another potential error that can be identified as a pitfall is the transition from fetal to maternal heart rate (MHR) recording. The misidentification of MHR as FHR can potentially mask pathological FHR traces, appearing as a falsely reassuring trace.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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