Fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) for fetal monitoring during labour

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Neilson, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN DISEASE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CORD PH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FETAL BLOOD SAMPLING; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; INTUBATION; LABOR; NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY; NEONATAL INTUBATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL DEATH; PH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VAGINAL DELIVERY; WAVEFORM; ACIDOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

ACIDOSIS; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CESAREAN SECTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 84965184353     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000116.pub5     Document Type: Review

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