Main Findings
This study is the first to evaluate the influence of specific training
in physiology-based CTG interpretation on professional attitudes towards
recourse to second-line methods. Our results suggest that obstetricians
who underwent this type of training would less often decide to use
second-line methods when confronted with CTG abnormalities. This
advantage would come at the cost of more often deciding to continue
labour in situations that would have required a caesarean section to
preserve neonatal well-being. Conversely, the obstetricians who did not
undergo this training did not seem to opt more often for a caesarean
section when the patient actually delivered vaginally.