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Filomena Giulia Sileo1,2, Joana Curado1,3, Amarnath Bhide1
1Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
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.
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