In my experience this is the case, influenced by guidance on interpretation
from NICE. There is an interesting paper on outcomes of atypical vs typical
which I will give the reference for, if you don't already have it.
Deborah
Midwife/ Lecturer Norwich
Longworth,Mary Kathleen writes:
> Would be grateful for some advice for anyone who has had to address this
> issue themselves.
> Recently I have been involved with a debate as to whether midwives should
> still be referring to late and early decelerations when interpreting CTG
> tracings. There are some individuals who now refer to early and late
> decelerations as typical and atypical decelerations. Just wondered
> whether the use of typical and atypical decelerations are now used
> elsewhere to replace 'earlys' and 'lates'.
> Thanks
> Mary
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> Mary Longworth
> Midwifery Lecturer
> Fron Heulog
> School of Health Care Sciences
> Friddoedd Road
> Bangor
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