Internal Reference Number: FOI_8474
Date Request Received: 19/02/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 04/03/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: information regarding your obstetric unit
Request Category: Health
| Question Number 1: I would like to request information regarding your obstetric unit, under the FOIA, - To which LMNS does your trust belong to? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB | |
| Question Number 2: - Is your trust a tertiary Fetal Medicine Unit? | |
| Answer To Question 2: No | |
| Question Number 3: - Does your trust do a routine late third trimester scan for every woman in pregnancy? | |
| Answer To Question 3: No. | |
| Question Number 4: Regarding growth scans in the second or third trimester: - To calculate HC do you use HC or BPD + OFD? - To calculate AC do you use AC or TAPD + APD? - To plot FL centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty ) - To plot HC centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty ) - To plot AC centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty ) | |
| Answer To Question 4: - To calculate HC do you use HC or BPD + OFD? - We use HC. - To calculate AC do you use AC or TAPD + APD? - We us AC. - We use Chitty Charts for HC, AC and FL. | |
| Question Number 5: - What algorithm do you use to calculate Estimated Fetal Weight? (Eg Hadlock (HC, AC, FL), Hadlock (BPD-HC-AC-FL), Hadlock (FL-AC), Warsof (BPD-AC), Persson (BPD-TAD-APAD-FL), Hansmann et al, Combs, Souka, INTERGROWTH-21ST or other) | |
| Answer To Question 5: Hadlock (HC, AC, FL), if unable to measure head due to fetal position we use Hadlock (AC + FL) | |
| Question Number 6: - What centile reference chart do you use to plot the Estimated Fetal Weight? | |
| Answer To Question 6: Perinatal Institute | |
| Question Number 7: - Does your trust use GAP-GROW? | |
| Answer To Question 7: Yes | |
| Question Number 8: - To measure Amniotic Fluid does your trust measure Deepest Vertical Pool or measure Amniotic Fluid Index? | |
| Answer To Question 8: Both | |
| Question Number 9: - Which chart do you use to plot the amniotic fluid volume? | |
| Answer To Question 9: Moore TR & Cayle JE | |
| Question Number 10: - When measuring Uterine Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use? - When measuring Umbilical Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use? - When measuring Middle Cerebral Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use? - When measuring Ductus Venosus Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use? | |
| Answer To Question 10: - UtA PI - Gomez O, Figueras F, Fernandez S, Bennasar M, Martinez JM, Puerto B, Gratacos E. Reference ranges for uterine artery mean pulsatility index at 11-41 weeks of gestation. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2008; 32: 128-132 - UA PI & PSV Schaffer H, Staudach A. Doppler-Referenzkurven. Frauenklinik LKA Salzburg 1997 - MCA PA - Ebbing C, Rasmussen S, Kiserud T. Middle cerebral artery blood flow velocities and pulsatility index and the cerebroplacental pulsatility ratio: longitudinal reference ranges and terms for serial measurements. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2007; 30: 287- 296 - MCA PSV - Mari G et al. Noninvasive diagnosis by Doppler ultrasonography of fetal anemia due to maternal red-cell alloimmunization. Collaborative Group for Doppler Assessment of the Blood Velocity in Anemic Fetuses. N Engl J Med 2000; 342: 9-14 - We do not perform Ductus Venosus Dopplers | |
| Question Number 11: Do you use the same charts for fetal biometry, Amniotic Fluid Index and Dopplers across all hospitals in your trust and all trusts in LMNS region? | |
| Answer To Question 11: Yes for this Trust. We do use the same charts for fetal biometry, Amniotic Fluid Index and Dopplers at all sites where we complete obstetric ultrasound (SFT and community sites). We are not a multi hospital trust. Regarding all trusts within our LMNS, you would need to contact Royal United Hospitals Bath and Great Western Hospital, Swindon. | |
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