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Buy and Sell Through Classified Ads Call 845-2611 Page MATie Battalion/Thursday, September 4, 1986 Fetal heart monitoring questioned Study: Practice has 'no advantage' in routine pregnancies BOSTON (AP) — The common habit of continuously monitoring fe tal heartbeat during childbirth leads to slightly more Caesarean deliveries but doesn’t produce healthier ba bies, a new study concludes. Although continuous electronic monitoring is considered prudent during high-risk pregnancies, the researchers found that it carries no advantage for routine deliveries, even though most doctors use it for all births. “There are no infant benefits that we could detect in low-risk deliv eries,” said Dr. Kenneth J. Leveno of the University of Texas Southwes tern Medical School. The study was published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine, along with a second paper suggesting that private doctors per form more Caesarean sections than do residents on hospital staffs. In both cases, researchers sug gested that tear of malpractice suits is one factor prompting physicians to monitor fetal hearts and deliver infants by Caesarean section. Since introduced almost two de cades ago, fetal monitors have be come a standard tool in delivery rooms. Leveno’s study suggests that when doctors use the monitor with the sensor strapped to the mother’s ab domen to look lor trouble, thev wil find it, even when none exists. ting the maximum possible pi tion lor their babv. then ones! fhe problem, he savs, is that fetal monitors “do not preciselv identic the baby in distress all the time. Most children with abnormal fetal heart rates are really in good condition.” use this.” In a se Haynes <i Center ai the Caesa Citv host Kt However, Dr. Henrv Klapholz ol Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, said routine monitoring mas still be worthwhile. nr, Elmhurst, N.Y., si i ean rate at fourNev litals. Patients of pri loctors were signific Is to have Caesareant i svere those attende nhssicians on hos TUPE iron clicl |go as a unbrii “It's my belief that there are patients svho said. “There are not ma is a cost. If one is inter hi svrote that a 'pro tion i-' physicians’cm lessional liability ifthi Debate (continued from page 1) moving from an industrial age to a high-tech age and therefore, noth ing is more important than a com mittment to education. “No investment our government can make will pay richer dividends than an investment in education,” he said. “Unquestionably, balancing the budget is high priority but we’ve got to distinguish between costs and in- sestments. “Government is like any other business. The day it stops investing in its future is the day it starts to de cline.” Barton also addressed a question concerning further cuts in the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. He said no representative wants to cut or reduce a program his constit uents support and that TAES has done a lot for Texas farmers. “But I also believe the number one problem facing this country is the deficit,” he said. The extension service is not exempt from any automatic cuts un der Gramm-Rudman, Barton con tinued, and it would receive across- the-board cuts if Congress refuses to make priority decisions. But Geren said that Barton voted for a budget that wouldn’t just trim TAES but would have cut it bv 57 percent. Agriculture, he continued, is the nation’s largest industry and is fac ing serious problems. “We’re having a difficult time competing in the world of interna tional trade,” Geren said. “We’ve had an agricultural deficit for the last three months — unheard of in the last 30 years of our nation’s his tory. “Yes, we've got to cut . . . but we’ve got to distinguish between expenses and investments. We’ve got the best agricultural industry in the world, but we’ve got competition now . . . from other agricultural nations. “If we’re going to stay the best ag ricultural nation in the world we’re going to have to continue to invest to make it better.” Texas A&M plays a big part in the research that helps agriculture, Ge ren said. “If we back up now and stop mak ing these investments in the future we are shortchanging future genera tions just as much as we are when we pile on big budget deficits they’re going to have to pay for,” he said. 1 he candidate the trade deficit. Recenth the ()innih came before the Hot stilted that America wo tolerate unfair trade pi acceptable trade deficit "1 f I were in Congre ten said. “I’d advocate that empowered our | manded our president, prime ministers of (»er pan and say ‘Until vo t iers come down, your BMW’s are going to st; docks in Houston.’ ” But Barton opposes Moldavian quake left widespread! damage Mississip The r tsked bis ‘I was Irudmg i ■v’ho hea lhallengt Bins in a Bhat be i InKoui k The a trams, n prol fi:ononii< His N< In this qi Belt, bai paigns in knajor >W (AIM — AbouHciyding buildings ii'fc kei d lamagcd sMothet acb .m e.n ihijii.ikciidiH Wilcbr Iteishock this week, ■( inistiai •m newspapet fatsBcoalition dnesdav. bil During a press i ceding the debate “That is a political dc up) in a campaign y< tain members of cert tough on trade. " He called the bill proach to trade noli government needs t< current framework t trade prat tices. “We have a deli going to go away b swers. 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