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- P A Groves and N E Oriol.
- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
- Int J Obstet Anesth. 1995 Jul 1; 4 (3): 161-7.
AbstractIt is essential for an obstetric anesthesiologist to be aware of the fetal status before undertaking care of the laboring mother. In the last 20 years electronic fetal monitoring has been the most widely used technique of evaluating the fetus in labor. Recently however, the ability to predict or improve fetal outcome using traditional interpretation has been questioned. This review presents a summary of the current technology and interpretation of intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring, as well as a discussion of its limitations and some of the developments in this field which may help improve the accuracy of fetal assessment. The new developments in fetal monitoring discussed in this article are computerized assessment of fetal heart tracings, heart rate variability analysis, fetal electrocardiogram waveform analysis, abdominal detection of fetal ECG, fetal scalp oxygen saturation, fetal pH sampling and transcutaneous oxygen and carbon dioxide measurement.
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