Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

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.New for this edition: Addition of Neonatal Encephalopathy and recent studies on CP New information and discussion of most recent NICHD panel recommendations New Pitfalls chapter New section on fetal maternal hemorrhage Update on new instrumentation Updated information on maternal/fetal coincidence and FDA warnings Online access to full text and image bank