Foetal Heart Rate Monitoring

This new edition features insights from authorities in the field of electronic foetal monitoring. Areas covered include history, physiology, hypoxia, pattern recognition technique as well as management risks and benefits.

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The foetal heart rate provides information which could translate into improved care and decreased mortality. The second edition of "Fetal heart Rate Monitoring" helps the reader make the best possible use of this technique. New technologies such as dynamic real time ultrasound and improved understanding of the causes of neurological damage to the foetus have changed the role of electronic foetal heart rate monitoring in obstetrics. "Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring" incorporates these advances to provide a complete examination of both the best uses of this technique and its limitations.