Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

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.

Table of Contents:

1 History of Fetal Monitoring

2 Physiologic Basis of Fetal Monitoring

3 Intrauterine Hypoxia and Other Causes of Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy

4 Instrumentation and Artifact Detection Including Fetal Arrhythmias

5 Uterine Contraction Monitoring

6 Standard Nomenclature

7 Umbilical Cord Blood Gases to Assess Fetal Condition at Birth

8 Clinical Management of Category II and Category III Fetal Heart Rate Patterns

9 Adjunctive Tools for Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

10 Antepartum Fetal Monitoring

11 Antepartum Management of the High-Risk Patient

12 Fetal Heart Rate Patterns Associated with Fetal Central Nervous System Dysfunction

13 Quality Assurance and Risk Mitigation in Fetal Monitoring