Intrapartum electronic fetal heart rate monitoring and the prevention of perinatal brain injury

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 656-666

  Graham, Ernest M ^a   Petersen, Scott M ^a   Christo, Dana K ^a   Fox, Harold E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; META ANALYSIS; NEWBORN DISEASE; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UMBILICAL CORD;

BIRTH INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; FETAL HYPOXIA; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 33748377126     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000230533.62760.ef     Document Type: Review

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