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Latent Labor Guidelines Under Fire | Cork News
A former National Maternity Hospital master, Peter Boylan, warns that Ireland’s new labor guidelines—defining true labor as starting at four centimeters dilation—could leave women in pain and unmonitored, risking harm to mothers and babies, echoing dangerous UK precedents. The HSE counters that care is now individualized, midwives are highly trained, and the guidelines reflect modern, evidence-based, multidisciplinary standards. Dr. Cliona Murphy adds that Boylan’s critique misrepresents the broader, peer-reviewed process behind the guidelines, noting his decade-long retirement and the…
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