Effects of monitoring high-risk pregnancies and intrapartum FHR monitoring on perinates.
A protocol of chronic antepartum surveillance was initiated at the University of Illinois hospitals in 1973 to assess the impact on perinatal mortality. At the same time, a policy of unselected fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring was initiated to judge the effect on the intrapartum stillbirth rate. The impact of both programs played a significant role in the decline of perinatal mortality rates for infants weighing more than 1 500 g, from 21.1/1 000 births in 1970--1971 to 14.4/1 000 births in the monitored years 1973 and 1974 (p less than 0.02).
D000653:Amniotic Fluid / Q000032:analysis; D001724:Birth Weight; D003404:Creatinine / Q000032:analysis; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D004964:Estriol / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D005318:Fetal Heart; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D005865:Gestational Age; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D009026:Mortality; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000032:analysis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D013109:Sphingomyelins / Q000032:analysis; D014463:Ultrasonography
D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D013109:Sphingomyelins; D003404:Creatinine; D004964:Estriol