ReviewSurgery journal (New York, N.Y.)2018
Continuous Electronic Fetal Monitoring during Labor: A Critique and a Reply to Contemporary Proponents.
Review in Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed.
- Resistance to Change.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2023Review
- Changing Perspectives of Electronic Fetal Monitoring.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2022Review
- Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, November 2020.Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN · 2020Article
- A Strategy for Classification of "Vaginal vs. Cesarean Section" Delivery: Bivariate Empirical Mode Decomposition of Cardiotocographic Recordings.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
A half century after continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) became the omnipresent standard of care for the vast majority of labors in the developed countries, and the cornerstone for cerebral palsy litigation, EFM advocates still do not have any scientific evidence justifying EFM use in most labors or courtrooms. Yet, these EFM proponents continue rationalizing the procedure with a rhetorical fog of meaningless words, misleading statistics, archaic concepts, and a complete disregard for medical ethics. This article illustrates the current state of affairs by providing an evidence-based review penetrating the rhetorical fog of a prototypical EFM advocate.
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