Antepartal and intrapartal fetal monitoring / by Michelle L. Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murray, Michelle (Michelle L.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fetal monitoring.

Fetal heart rate monitoring.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (542 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

""...has been one of the major resources in fetal monitoring since its inception....This book will help move us out of the 20th century and into the 21st.""-- Doody's Book Review Service. Designed for labor and delivery nurses, nurse midwives, nurses cross-training in L&D, and Ob/Gyn nurses and physicians, this workbook is a step-by-step guide to using the equipment and identifying FHR pattern components and the significance of those components. Everything you need to know to enable you to identify the common signs of fetal well-being and the indicators of fetal compromise are included in this

Contents:

Contributors and Corporate Sponsors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Chapter 1 Fetal and Maternal Monitoring Equipment; Chapter 2 The Baseline, Accelerations, and Decelerations; Chapter 3 Intrinsic Factors that Affect the Fetal Heart Rate; Chapter 4 Extrinsic Factors that Affect Oxygen Delivery and the FHR; Chapter 5 Acid-Base Balance; Chapter 6 Prediction and Prevention of Intrapartal Fetal Asphyxia; Chapter 7 Hemodynamic and Biochemical Fetal Monitoring; Chapter 8 Variations of the Fetal Heart Rate; Chapter 9 Antepartal Fetal Monitoring; Chapter 10 Biophysical Fetal Assessment

AppendixIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-81329-X

9786611813291

0-8261-0483-5

OCLC:

437109909