Electronic Fetal Monitoring Concepts and Applications

by Menihan, Cydney Afriat; Zottoli, Ellen Kopel

• ISBN13: 9780781726269
• ISBN10: 0781726263
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-04
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

This practical, one-of-a-kind reference combines descriptions of EFM technology with more than 150 workbook-style fetal monitoring strips for readers to interpret on their own. Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Concepts and Applications provides a strong foundation for EFM as well as the opportunity to actually practice interpreting EFM strips. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Maternal-Fetal Physiology of Fetal Heart Rate Patterns	1	(14)
Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Equipment and Technology	15	(12)
Fetal Heart Rate Pattern Interpretation	27	(38)
Antepartum Fetal Assessment	65	(10)
Adjunct Assessment to Electronic Fetal Monitoring	75	(4)
Exercises in Electronic Fetal Monitoring	79	(146)
Legal Issues in Electronic Fetal Monitoring	225	(14)
Electronic Fetal Monitoring Competence Validation	239	(12)
Appendix A Example Chain of Command	251	(2)
Appendix B Algorithm for Management of Antepartum Testing	253	(2)
Appendix C Intrapartum Assessment of Electronic Fetal Monitoring	255	(4)
Appendix D The Role of the Nurse Midwife in the Management of Electronic Fetal Monitoring	259	(2)
Appendix E Terminology	261	(2)
Index	263