Marked fetal acidosis and specific changes in power spectrum analysis of fetal heart rate variability recorded during the last hour of labour

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 418-423

  Siira, Saila M ^a   Ojala, Tiina H ^a   Vahlberg, Tero J ^a   Jalonen, Jarmo O ^a   Välimäki, Ilkka A ^a   Rosén, Karl G ^b   Ekholm, Eeva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS ACID BASE BALANCE; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ACIDOSIS; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 17144366164     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2004.00454.x     Document Type: Article

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