cover image - Fetal Monitoring in Practice - Elsevier EBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780323931557
Copyright: 2024
Publication Date: 07-03-2023
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
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Fetal Monitoring in Practice - Elsevier EBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition

by Donald Gibb, MD MRCP FRCOG and Sabaratnam Arulkumaran

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Fetal Monitoring in Practice - Elsevier EBook on VitalSource, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780323931557
Copyright: 2024
Publication Date: 07-03-2023
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $43.99
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The latest edition of this popular book is essential reading for all midwives and doctors working in the labour ward.

It has been fully updated but retains the essential features that have contributed to its popularity – an accessible writing style, easy-to-understand explanation of CTGs, and case studies and illustrations to make the content as accessible and practical as possible.

Fetal monitoring is a challenging area that requires skill and experience to practise well. This volume explores the subject matter in a detailed but straightforward manner, thus becoming an invaluable resource for health practitioners as well as midwifery and medical students.

    • Fully updated by internationally renowned editors
    • Illustrations and case histories make content applicable to practice
    • Clear and friendly writing demystifies a potentially challenging subject area
    • Explains the correct use of terminology to help ensure safe and accurate communication
    • Covers the basics of interpretation, common pitfalls associated with equipment usage, and clinical trial data in context
    • Explains the underlying pathophysiology associated with abnormal changes seen on the CTG
    • Clinical scenarios demonstrate common presentations such as breech birth, twin pregnancies, brow presentation, hypertension, and eclampsia
    • Real CTG traces demonstrate more complex presentations such as prolonged deceleration, placental abruption, and fetal bleeding
  • 1. Introduction
    2. Clinical assessment and recording
    3. Auscultation of the fetal heart rate
    4. Electronic fetal monitoring – terminology and interpretation
    5. Pathophysiology of fetal heart rate (FHR)
    6. NICE and FIGO guidelines for interpretation of FHR patterns
    7. Antepartum fetal surveillance
    8. The admission test by cardiotocography or by auscultation
    9. Assessment of uterine contractions
    10. Oxytocin and fetal heart rate changes
    11. Meconium, infection, anaemia, bleeding
    12. Cardiotocographic interpretation: additional clinical scenarios
    13. Cardiotocographic interpretation: more difficult problems
    14. Fetal scalp blood sampling pH and lactate
    15. Fetal ECG waveform analysis
    16. Medico legal issues with CTG and current strategies to reduce litigation
    17. Competency testing in CTG interpretation prior to practice
    18. Machine Learning
    19. Fetal Monitoring in the Future
  • Donald Gibb, MD MRCP FRCOG, Independent Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, The Birth Company (part of The Portland Hospital), Harley Street, London, UK and Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, Professor Emeritus, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George’s University of London, London, UK
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