The Need for Training
There has been a well-documented need for improvements to CTG interpretation for decades to improve neonatal and maternal outcomes.
Issues with fetal monitoring were identified as a leading contributory factor in reports and investigations which look at avoidable deaths in intrapartum care for a number of years.
In addition, the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle (version three) recommends effective fetal monitoring during labour as one of the key elements of care designed to tackle perinatal deaths, and that training in CTG interpretation should be annual.
Aims and Objectives
This two-day course will enhance knowledge in assessing the risk to the woman and fetus during labour, using physiology and pathophysiology when interpreting a CTG trace to better understand how that individual baby is coping with the stress of labour – using the whole clinical picture. This improved understanding will enable better interpretation of the trace and more effective, appropriate escalation of concerns over the fetal wellbeing in labour.
The course is taught by a multi-professional faculty to a multi-professional audience – it will be highly interactive, and encourage better decision making, prioritisation, and escalation on a busy Labour Ward.
This two-day course will build on the Foundation CTG Masterclass, to give a better understanding of more complex clinical scenarios and how the fetus in coping. It will go into more detail and allow further reflection than the one-day course, and so will demand a basic level of knowledge of the approach.
Relevant For
Beneficial for all professionals who are involved in interpreting CTG traces, but particularly for fetal monitoring leads, labour ward leads, obstetric leads and midwives in charge.