Fetal Intrapartum Pulse Oximetry: a Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial (the FOREMOST trial)

目前监测分娩期间未出生婴儿健康状况的方法往往导致对未出生婴儿健康的担忧。这导致通过剖腹产，产钳或真空分娩。这些婴儿出生后通常是健康的，这意味着手术是不必要的。在这项研究中，当一个未出生的婴儿出现痛苦时，一半的研究参与者将被分配继续监测婴儿的心跳。另一半将有一种新的分娩监测形式，胎儿氧饱和度监测，补充说。然后，我们将确定这种新形式的监测是否会对女性需要剖腹产、产钳或真空分娩的次数产生影响。在新的监测形式成为常规使用之前进行这项研究是很重要的。澳大利亚的这项研究在让保健消费者（妇女）了解新的监测方法在实践中是否有效和确保没有不可预见的不良事件方面处于世界领先地位。

Current methods of monitoring the well-being of the unborn baby during labour often result in concern about the unborn baby's health. This leads to delivery by caesarean section, forceps , or vacuum. These babies are usually found to be healthy once born, meaning that the operation was unnecessry. In this study, when an unborn baby appears to be distressed, half of the study participants will be allocated to continue with the current monitororing of the baby's heartbeat. The other half will have a new form of monitoring in labour, fetal oxgyen saturation monitoring, added. We will then determine whether the new form of monitoring makes a differnce in the number of times women need to have a caesarean section, forceps, or vacuum delivery. It is important to do this research BEFORE the new form of monitoring becomes used routinely. This Australian research is leading the world in letting the health consumer (women) know whether the new monitoring method is effective in practice and ensuring that there are no unforeseen adverse events.