Impact of fetal blood sampling on vaginal delivery and neonatal outcome in deliveries complicated by pathologic fetal heart rate: A population based cohort study

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 479-483

  Stein, Werner ^a,c   Hellmeyer, Lars ^a   Misselwitz, Björn ^b   Schmidt, Stephan ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Quality Assurance Hesse   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous electronic fetal monitoring; Fetal blood sampling; Pathologic fetal heart rate; Vaginal operative delivery

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ACID BASE BALANCE; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RISK FACTOR; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DISTRESS; FETAL MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33845288639     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2006.093     Document Type: Article

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