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: $40.99

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: $40.99
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    • 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 

    New Chapter: Machine Learning 

    New Chapter: 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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