Publisher's Synopsis
The only textbook in this essential area of obstetrics authored primarily by physicians, Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, 5th Edition, offers highly illustrated, comprehensive information on understanding and interpreting fetal heart rate tracings and their implications. Edited by Drs. Alison G. Cahill and Nandini Raghuraman, this substantially revised edition is an indispensable tool for promoting patient safety and improving outcomes-ideal for obstetric physicians, nurses, PAs, trainees, and all other members of the labor and delivery team.
- Provides clear, easy-to-follow guidance on physiology, clinical management of high-risk complications, liability and risk management, and much more
- Features fully up-to-date, evidence-based chapters revised by contributing authors who have specific expertise in each topic, highlighted by hundreds of current fetal heart rate scans and line drawings
- Includes a new section on Future Research in each chapter
- Covers key issues such as the physiological basis for monitoring, fetal hypoxemia and neonatal encephalopathy, instrumentation and pattern recognition, intrapartum and antepartum management, fetal central nervous system effects on monitor patterns, and the use of backup methods for evaluation of abnormal patterns
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