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Article History

Received: 1 April 2024

Accepted: 15 January 2025

First Online: 1 February 2025

Declarations

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: This program was primarily a humanitarian activity to enhance quality improvement of perinatal care and not a research study requiring ethics committee approval. Although written consent was obtained from all mothers undertaking fetal monitoring during their labour, this was only because this form of monitoring had not previously been used in Ukraine and therefore not included in available clinical guidelines. The Ministry of Health of Ukraine and Associations of Neonatologists and Obstetricians and Gynaecologists supported the design of the program and ethics committee approval was not considered necessary as the armed conflict had created a situation where normal perinatal care was not possible. Attached are letters from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, The Association of Neonatologists, and the Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists confirming their support of this humanitarian program. The fetal heart rate monitoring by mothers was approved as a non-invasive form of management that could help staff address the lack of medical staff and damage to electrical supplies to maternity units.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.