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Fetal heart rate monitoring / Roger K. Freeman ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fetal Monitoring.
- Heart Rate, Fetal.
- Fetal Heart.
- Fetal heart rate monitoring.
- Medical Subjects:
- Fetal Monitoring.
- Heart Rate, Fetal.
- Fetal Heart.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, c2012.
- Summary:
- "Fetal heart rate monitoring is widely used by almost every obstetrician as a way to document the case and to help decrease health care costs. This is a short reference on the physiologic benefits, instrumentation, application and interpretation of fetal heart rate monitoring. The second half of the book uses actual FHR strips and cases to illustrate various anomalies (fetal distress, fetal distress in prematurity, fetus with CNS dysfunction). Several new drugs have been introduced for use during labor that effect FHR"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- History of fetal monitoring / Garite
- Physiologic basis of FHR monitoring / Garite
- Hypoxia and aspyxia / Freeman
- Instrumentation and artifact detection including fetal arrhythmias / Freeman
- Uterine contraction monitoring / Nageotte
- Basic pattern recognition / Freeman
- Umbilical cord blood gases to assess fetal condition at birth / Garite
- Clinical management of non-reassuring FHR patterns / Nageotte
- Alternative and back up methods to improve interpretation of concerning FHR patterns / Garite
- Evaluation and management of fetal heart rate patterns in premature gestation / Garite
- Antepartum fetal monitoring / Nageotte
- Antepartum management if the high risk patient / Nageotte
- FHR patterns associated with fetal CNS dysfunction / Freeman
- Risk management / Miller.
- Notes:
- Rev. edition of: Fetal heart rate monitoring / Roger K. Freeman, Thomas J. Garite, Michael P. Nageotte. 3rd edition c2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 9781451116632 (hardback)
- 1451116632
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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