Fetal monitoring in labor: Are accelerations good enough?

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 349-352

  Trochez, Ruben D ^a,c   Sibanda, Thabani ^a   Sharma, Rohit ^b   Draycott, Tim ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IPSWICH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic fetal monitoring; Fetal blood sampling

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; LABOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; VAGINA;

ACIDOSIS; APGAR SCORE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCALP; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 30344450035     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14767050500261770     Document Type: Article

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