Practical Guide to Foetal Heart Rate Monitoring

This basic practical handbook on fetal heart rate monitoring aims to provide an insight into normal cardiotocography and alerts doctors and midwifery staff to cardiotocographic features which merit further action and emphasizes the practical aspects of common problems.

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This is the first basic practical handbook on fetal heart rate monitoring. It aims to provide an insight into normal cardiotocography and alerts doctors and midwifery staff to cardiotocographic features which merit further action. The book does not offer definitive solutions to abnormal features, but suggests basic measures that should be taken. It emphasizes the practical problems encountered rather than theory, and wherever relevant traces are accompanied by appropriate scalp or umbilical artery blood pH values, apgar scores and fetal outcome.