Tag Philip Owen

Introduction Health care practitioners’ priority is the provision of the highest standard of care within the constraints of the resources available to them: no obstetrician or gynaecologist goes to work with the intention of providing substandard care and causing harm…

Introduction The purpose of monitoring the fetus in labour is to identify those who might be at increased risk of death or hypoxic injury so that delivery can be expedited and harm prevented. Fetal monitoring involves fetal heart rate (FHR)…