Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring is a practical guide to the physiology, instrumentation, applications, and interpretation of fetal heart rate monitoring.

Features:

• A new chapter on fetal pulse oximetry using a non-invasive electrode placed on the fetus's cheek during labor
• Case examples include strips from the cheek electrode and the traditional scalp electrode
• Includes information on new drugs used during labor that affect fetal heart rate
• Case-based approach to FHR monitoring

Contents

1. History of Fetal Monitoring
2. Physiologic Basis of Fetal Monitoring
3. Intrauterine Hypoxia and Other Causes of Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy
4. Instrumentation and Artifact Detection
5. Uterine Contraction Monitoring
6. Basic Pattern Recognition
7. Fetal Cardiac Arrhythmias
8. Fetal Acid-Base Monitoring
9. Clinical Management of Nonreassuring Fetal Heart Rate Patterns
10. Fetal Pulse Oximetry
11. Diagnosis and Management of Nonreassuring Fetal Heart Rate Patterns in Premature Gestation
12. Antepartum Fetal Monitoring
13. Antepartum Management of the High-Risk Patient
14. Fetal Heart Rate Pattens Associated with Fetal Central Nervous System Dysfunction
15. Pitfalls in Antepartum and Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring

Index

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