Showing papers by "Robert Clive Pattinson published in 1990"

TL;DR: Fifty-eight women with severe preeclampsia between 28-34 weeks' gestation qualified for a randomized controlled trial to establish whether elective delivery 48 hours after administration of betamethasone or delivery later as indicated by maternal or fetal condition was more beneficial to maternal and fetal outcome.

TL;DR: The investigators found that interpretation of the intrapartum CTG continues to pose major problems for practising obstetricians and predicted that the abnormalities were severe enough to lead to significant fetal metabolic acidosis at delivery in 23 asphyxiated infants and in 11 controls.