Fetal Monitoring | 合法醫療器材資訊網

In 2017, Cochrane researchers combined the results of 12 randomized, controlled trials including more than 37,000 participants (Alfirevic et al. 2017). Most of the studies were of poor quality and took place in the 1970s and 1980s. Both technology and clinical practice have changed over the years and we do not know what effect this would have on the results if these studies were re-done today. In all of these studies, people were randomly assigned to receive either continuous EFM or hands-on listening during labor.

The researchers found no differences between the continuous EFM group and the hands-on listening group in Apgar scores or cord blood gases, rates of low-oxygen brain damage, admission to the neonatal intensive care unit, or perinatal death. They also found no difference between groups in the percentage of people using medication for pain...