FoI Number
2024-757
Subject
Foetal Medicine
Date Received
05/03/2025
Request and Response
  1. Is your Hospital a tertiary Foetal Medicine Unit?

NO

  1. Does your Hospitals do a routine late third trimester scan for every woman in pregnancy?

NO

Regarding growth scans in the second or third trimester:

 

  1. To calculate HC do you use HC or BPD + OFD?

HC

  1. To calculate AC do you use AC or TAPD + APD?

AC

  1. To plot FL centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )

HADLOCK

  1. To plot HC centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )

HADLOCK

  1. To plot AC centile which biometry chart do you use? (eg Chitty )

HADLOCK

  1. What algorithm do you use to calculate Estimated Foetal Weight?

Hadlock HC, AC, FL

 

  1. What centile reference chart do you use to plot the Estimated Foetal Weight?

GAP-GROW

 

  1. Does your trust use GAP-GROW?

YES

  1. To measure Amniotic Fluid does your trust measure Deepest Vertical Pool or measure Amniotic Fluid Index?

 SINGLE DEEPEST POOL

  1. Which chart do you use to plot the amniotic fluid volume?

N/A

  1. When measuring Uterine Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?

 N/A

  1. When measuring Umbilical Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?

N/A

  1. When measuring Middle Cerebral Artery Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?

N/A

  1. When measuring Ductus Venosus Doppler PI and PSV which reference centile chart do you use?

N/A