Electronic fetal monitoring : concepts and applications / Cydney Afriat Menihan, Ellen Kopel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menihan, Cydney Afriat, 1951-

Contributor:

Kopel, Ellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fetal heart rate monitoring.

Fetal Monitoring--methods.

Heart Rate, Fetal--physiology.

Medical Subjects:

Fetal Monitoring--methods.

Heart Rate, Fetal--physiology.

Physical Description:

xv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, [2008]

Summary:

This comprehensive text emphasizes the practical application of electronic fetal monitoring (EFM). Case scenarios link various clinical situations with data interpretation to promote critical thinking. Relevant, up-to-date research helps readers develop problem solving skills; identify optimal treatment responses; and become familiar with the disease and nondisease conditions in pregnant patients that affect fetal health. More than 170 EFM strips complement the text. This edition has more monitoring strips and a new chapter on electronic record-keeping by a well-known expert. Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Concepts and Applications, Second Edition is a must-have purchase for anyone responsible for EFM interpretation.

Contents:

Maternal-fetal physiology of fetal heart rate patterns

Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring equipment and technology

Fetal heart rate pattern interpretation

Antepartum fetal assessment

Exercises in electronic fetal monitoring

Legal issues in electronic fetal monitoring

Electronic fetal monitoring competence validation

Electronic fetal monitoring and information technology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0781770114

9780781770118

OCLC:

85885388

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