The Proportion of Birth Asphyxia Associated With Maternal Heart Rate Artifact During Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Labour
Unrecognized MHRA resulting in a falsely reassuring fetal heart rate, mainly in the active second stage, led to DD in more than one-third of birth asphyxia cases. These outcomes may be preventable by education and the routine use of technologies to detect MHRA.
Authors
- Anna MacIntyre (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0218-8882)
- Mariah Colussi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3285-0125)
- Gary Garber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7633-5630)
- Karen Young (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9452-2293)
- Lawrence Oppenheimer
- Laura Payant
- Daniel Kiely (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5661-7825)
- Jun Ji (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3194-2183)
- Qian Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5064-7115)
- Liisa Honey
- R. Sheriff
- Sue Woods
Institutions
- University of Ottawa (CA)
- Canadian Medical Protective Association (CA)
- Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal (CA)
- Ottawa University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
- Published
- 2025-09-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogc.2025.103128
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.49