References in periodicals archiveAnd despite the fact that there is no evidence that electronic fetal monitoring improves birth outcomes in normal deliveries, 85 percent of deliveries in 2003 involved monitoring, a figure that has been steadily climbing since 1989.
Interventions reported included: electronic fetal monitoring, 93 percent; intravenous (IV) lines, 85 percent; artificial rupture of membranes, 67 percent; oxytocin to induce or augment labor, 63 percent; bladder catheter, 52 percent; and episiotomy, 35 percent.
Forty-eight percent of children with abnormalities on electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) who were delivered via c-section were still diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
