Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring: Retrospective reflections on a twentieth-century technology

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 244-250

  Kennedy, Raymond G ^a,b  

^a LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PH; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LABOR; LAW SUIT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REVIEW;

EID: 0031834868     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014107689809100503     Document Type: Review

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