Labor and fetal heart rate decelerations: Relation to fetal metabolic acidosis

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-82

  Ross, Michael G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; LABOR; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSION; PATHOGENESIS; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD OBSTRUCTION; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ACIDOSIS; FEMALE; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LACTATES; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79951659661     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e31820a106d     Document Type: Article

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