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A survey of current clinical practice of chorionic villus sampling.
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Publisher: Wiley Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8106540 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1097-0223 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 01973851 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Prenat Diagn Subsets: MEDLINE
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Original Publication: Chichester, [Sussex]; New York : Wiley, c1981-
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- Abstract:
Objective: The number of invasive procedures (chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis) for fetal testing is decreasing because of the availability of non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) leading to a centralisation of prenatal diagnostic services to accredited fetal medicine centres. A new survey was conducted 10 years after the previous one to update the current clinical practice among clinicians who regularly perform CVS.
Method: Consultants from 32 centres in the United Kingdom were invited to take part in an online survey evaluating: The total number of CVS procedures carried out in the unit in a typical week, the preferred route (transabdominal [TA] vs transcervical [TC]), technique (use of local anaesthetic [LA] and needle technique).
Results: Response rate was 96.9%; TA was the preferred route (96.8%) in all centres except one. Single-needle technique is used exclusively in half the centres (51.6%). LA is used by most operators (90.3%) before the procedure. Three centres did not routinely use LA for CVS.
Conclusions: Operators across the United Kingdom almost exclusively use the TA route for CVS with single-needle technique in 51.6% of cases. The use of LA prior to CVS is a very common practice in the United Kingdom.
(© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)
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Date Created: 20190126 Date Completed: 20200323 Latest Revision: 20200323
- Publication Date:
20240829
- Accession Number:
10.1002/pd.5425
- Accession Number:
30682214
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