Cesárea por monitorización cardiotocográfica fetal no satisfactoria

Abstract

This study is attained to establish the sensibility, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value, of the fetal cardiotocographic monitoring for the diagnosis of acute fetal suffering wich leads to the termination of the gestation with in an emergency cesarean surgery, compared to the APGAR test of the new born as a Gold Standard. The universe of the study consisted in 880 pregnant women to whom a cesarean surgery was made. A 110 new born sample was obtained. 46 of them were diagnosed with acute fetal suffering with Gold Standard test; with an Apgar test < 7 at the first minute, 64 were normal with an Apgar test ≥ 7. This study found that the sensibility of the fetal cardiotocographic monitoring was 21.7% (IC 95% 12.26, 35.57¹).), and the specificity was 84.4% (IC 95% 73.57, 91.29¹). The conclusion was that the fetal cardiotocographic monitoring helps more as a test to value fetal well-being, above everything in high obstetrics risk pregnancies, the test is pretty less sensitive to detect that a fetus is coursing acute fetal suffering.