"Fetal heart rate monitoring is widely used by almost every obstetrician as a way to document the case and to help decrease health care costs. This is a short reference on the physiologic benefits, instrumentation, application and interpretation of fetal heart rate monitoring. The second half of the book uses actual FHR strips and cases to illustrate various anomalies (fetal distress, fetal distress in prematurity, fetus with CNS dysfunction). Several new drugs have been introduced for use during labor that effect FHR"-- Provided by publisher.

Revised edition of: Fetal heart rate monitoring / Roger K. Freeman, Thomas J. Garite, Michael P. Nageotte. 3rd ed. c2003.

History of fetal monitoring -- Physiologic basis of fetal monitoring -- Intrauterine Hypoxia and other causes of neonatal encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy -- Instrumentation and artifact detection including fetal arrhythmias -- Uterine contraction monitoring -- Basic pattern recognition -- Umbilical cord blood gases to assess fetal condition at birth -- Clinical management of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns -- Alternative and back up methods to improve interpretation of concerning FHR patterns -- Evaluation and management of fetal heart rate patterns in premature gestation -- Antepartum fetal monitoring -- Antepartum management of the high-risk patient -- Fetal heart rate patterns associated with fetal Central Nervous System dysfunction -- Liability and risk management in fetal monitoring.