Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, Fourth Edition – A Comprehensive Guide for Obstetric Care

“Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, Fourth Edition” is an essential resource for all members of the obstetric team, including nurses, students, midwives, and physicians. This edition offers a comprehensive framework for understanding and interpreting fetal heart rate tracings, crucial for assessing fetal oxygenation and ensuring patient safety. Key features of this edition include:

1. Physiological Basis for Monitoring: Provides a detailed understanding of the physiological aspects underlying fetal heart rate monitoring.

2. Fetal Hypoxemia and Neonatal Encephalopathy: Discusses key issues such as fetal hypoxemia and its implications, including neonatal encephalopathy.

3. Pattern Recognition and Instrumentation: Covers essential aspects of pattern recognition in fetal heart rate monitoring and updates on new instrumentation.

4. NICHD Nomenclature and FHR Category Approach: Offers an in-depth review of the standardized NICHD nomenclature and the three-tiered FHR Category approach.

5. Intrapartum and Antepartum Management: Includes chapters focusing on management strategies in both intrapartum and antepartum settings.

6. Fetal CNS Effects on Monitor Patterns: Explores how fetal central nervous system impacts monitor patterns.

7. Screening Tool and Backup Methods: Discusses the role of fetal monitoring as a screening tool and the use of backup methods for abnormal patterns evaluation.

8. Enhanced Legal and Risk Management Review: Features a detailed chapter on risk management, liability, and documentation, enhanced by Lisa A. Miller CNM, JD, offering a nursing and midwifery perspective.

9. New and Updated Content: Includes a new chapter on Pitfalls in EFM, updated information on fetal-maternal hemorrhage, maternal/fetal coincidence, and FDA warnings.

10. Companion Website: Provides access to a companion website with full text and an image bank for quick and easy clinical review.

11. Practice Tips and Clinical Implications: Each chapter contains updated practice tips and clinical implications for the entire obstetric team.

“Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, Fourth Edition” is more than a textbook; it’s a vital tool for improving outcomes in obstetric care. With comprehensive coverage and practical insights, this book is invaluable for anyone involved in fetal heart rate monitoring and obstetric care.

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