Clinical Trial: Maternal Oxygen Supplementation for Intrauterine Resuscitation
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Fetal Distress
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Maternal Oxygen Supplementation for Intrauterine Resuscitation: a Multicenter Randomized Trial
Brief Summary:
More than 80% of the 3 million women who labor and deliver each year in the United States undergo continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) during labor in order to fetal hypoxia and prevent the transition to acidemia, expedited operative delivery, and/or neonatal morbidity.Category II EFM is the most commonly observed group of fetal heart rate features in labor.One common response to Category II EFM is maternal oxygen (O2) supplementation.The theoretic rationale for O2 administration is that it increases…
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