Using Stan, Feedback from the Obstetrical team of University Hospital in Tours.
Stan S31 is a fetal monitoring device which analyses the baby’s electrocardiogram during labour and delivery. In the University Hospital of Tours (France) the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology decided to expand the use of this device. Prof. Franck Perrotin, Head of Department, outlines why the institution has taken this decision.
Unlike conventional cardiotocographs usually used during delivery, Stan S31 not only analyses fetal heart rate, but also …
You have used ST Analysis at your department since 2004. What were your experiences from when you first introduced the method?
When we made the decision to implement ST Analysis, we were very much focused on education and training. Before going live with the method all 160 midwifes and doctors went through theoretical and practical education and became certified Stan users. Right from the start regular sessions for retrospective case discussions have been part of a continuous learning process.
And …
You were one of the very first centres that started to use Stan and ST Analysis.
Yes, Professor Risto Erkkola, now retired since two years, was a pioneer. We got our first Stan device already around 1995, before the analysis of the waveform was automatic and before the Stan Guidelines were formalized.
Then in 2000 you joined the study sponsored by the European Union?
We got our first two Stan S21 devices and it was a great relief to have …
Professor Jacquemyn was the first to introduce STAN in Belgium in 2001, and since this time his department at the University Hospital of Antwerp has been a ‘Centre of Excellence’. Together with the midwives Gisèle Possemiers and Suzy Verbruggen he has trained hundreds of doctors and midwives in the STAN method. The ‘students’ have not just come from the region of Flanders but from the whole of Belgium, from the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
We asked Professor Jacquemyn a few questions …
