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.