Royal Women's in Brisbane has been conducting the pre-trial for a few years
now. As I understand it, as a result of findings so far, it has been
decided to do a much larger study.
Laurelle
At 07:28 27/06/02 +1000, you wrote:
>
>
>
>Hi,
>
>This is a story to today's courier mail. Thought you might be interested
>in it.. I haven't heard anything else about these trials. If someone has
>more information could you please let us know.
>
>Thanks
>
>Sally Joyce
>
> Hospital trials birth monitor
>By Siobhain Ryan
>27jun02
>
>BABIES will soon have to make room in the womb for oxygen monitors as part
>of a world-first trial of the devices in Queensland.
>
>The probes, which measure oxygen levels in a fetus's bloodstream, will be
>tested during labour to help reduce the number of emergency caesarean
>births.
>
>Chief research investigator Professor Paul Colditz said about 600 women
>were being recruited in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne to take part in the
>study. He said that, at present, oxygen monitoring only occurred after
>birth, in intensive care.
>
>Before or during delivery, the main way of checking for fetal distress was
>by monitoring the heart rate.
>
>But Professor Colditz, director of the perinatal research centre at Royal
>Women's Hospital, said heart rates were often poor measures of oxygen
>available to the baby ? that could lead to unnecessary caesareans.
>
>He said the study, which follows small-scale tests of similar devices at
>the hospital, was the world's first controlled trial of the probe.
>
>"The technology is being marketed around the world but because people are
>waiting to see if it's really effective or not, it's waiting on our trial,"
>Professor Colditz said.
>
>With stillborn births now outnumbering deaths from sudden infant death
>syndrome, his centre ? with the SIDS and Kids Association ? hopes to boost
>its research efforts into peri-natal health.
>
>The SIDS fundraiser ? Red Nose Day ? is tomorrow.
>
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