Yes, indeed! CTGs are only good for the time that the woman is actually on the monitor. And then there is so much uncertainty about how to interpret them.

We did have central monitoring, but it kept going wrong. So, in the end it was decided that it was too costly to maintain and it's now been scrapped. We really don't miss it. There have just been a couple of occasions when I would have liked to have known someone was keeping an eye on my CTG, because delivery suite has been very busy, I've been caring for more than one woman and I can't be in 2 rooms at once.

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