Dear a ll Obstetric practitioners & Trainees, Midwives & Nurses a nd most importantly the Health Administrators (16.8.18), Please note that today’s partogram is just this (see the mini chart below) and nothing more than this – called the “Instant Partogram” - apart from the usual Nursing observations of hourly T/P/R BP & FHR & frequency of contractions (see below). Seems unbelievable!! Please read on …. Instant partogram It consists of the following 2 simple steps: Step I: Fixing the expected ‘TIME’ of delivery (ETD) – which is a Split-Second job.
Step II: Charting the ‘LAG’ in dilatation - which entails writing just three or four simple numbers. This is very low skilled job and almost timeless No graph of any kind to the plot. Step I Fixing the expected ‘TIME’ of delivery (ETD) This vital time point is to be found out mentally at the very first PV in ‘Active…
