The Townsville hospital does a routine 20 min trace on admission. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:22 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] admission ctg
> I work in a high risk 'Delivery Suite' in a tertiary hospital where we have > frequent antenatal transfers for reasons of our own level 3 nursery. Also, > because of our proximity to the state's primary Children's hospital we have > antenatal transfers of care so women whose babies have particularly bad > abnormalities which can be treated surgically can have their babies as close > to this facility as possible. So our clientele is heavily skewed towards > high risk pregnancies and extremely anxious mothers and partners. The > decision was made, however, many years ago, to forgo routine admission > traces in the Delivery Suite. There has to be a particular reason for doing > a ctg trace on admission and they are audited frequently. I hold no brief > for our long time director of Delivery Suite (now replaced) but one thing he > consistently did was to try to limit the use of *routine* ctgs and also to > push (very aggressively) VBAC in our hospital, so that we have a 70% success > rate. It was sold to the other O&G's that admission traces, per se, > increased the likelihood of a C/S by I forget the rate, ?40%. We are so > conservative in other areas of practice I had thought this must be the norm > everywhere- is it not? How many places do routine admission traces? I would > be very interested to see a cross section > Monica > > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe. > -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
