Severe variable decelerations and fetal pulse oximetry during the second stage of labor

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-34

  Salamalekis, Emanouel ^a,b   Bakas, Panagiotis ^a   Saloum, Ioannis ^a   Vitoratos, Nikolaos ^a   Creatsas, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Fetal pulse oximetry, fetal monitoring; Labor, second stage; Pulse oximetry; Variable decelerations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LABOR; MATERNAL AGE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR STAGE, SECOND; OXIMETRY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 11444250921     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081366     Document Type: Article

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