This comprehensive guide to fetal monitoring, now in its fourth edition, provides an exhaustive compilation of up-to-date knowledge on the signs of fetal well-being and compromise obtained from FHR monitoring. Newly revised and updated, it features two new chapters on monitoring maternal heart rate patterns and legal issues involved in care, new fetal monitor ‘strips, ‘ and updated visual materials, references and resources. This book is an invaluable companion for labor and delivery nurses, nurse midwives, and maternal-child and family nurses.
Key Features- Covers systematic assessment of the pregnant patient
- Addresses external and internal fetal and maternal monitoring
- Includes a step-by-step guide to fetal monitoring equipment and procedures
- Contains detailed reproductions of actual fetal monitor tracings
- Clarifies differences between maternal and fetal heart rate patterns
- Includes NICHD definitions as alternative terminology for documentation
- Identifies ineffective actions that can delay timely interventions
- Sets forth legal issues
- Provides skill-testing exercises
This hands-on workbook, designed for long-term and frequent use, is of value for any nurse currently working in a labor and delivery setting as well as those entering the field.
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Introduction
Section 1 Systematic Assessment of the Pregnant Woman
Section 2 The Paper
Section 3 External and Internal Fetal Monitoring
Section 4 Maternal Heart Rate Patterns
Section 5 Uterine Contractions
Section 6 The Baseline
Section 7 Baseline Variability
Section 8 Short-Term Variability
Section 9 Accelerations
Section 10 Early Decelerations
Section 11 Late and Spontaneous Decelerations
Section 12 Variable Decelerations and the Checkmark Pattern
Section 13 Prolonged Decelerations
Section 14 Chronic Hypoxia, Acute Asphyxia
Section 15 Strip Evaluation and Categorization
Section 16 NICHD Defi nitions
Section 17 Skills Validation
Glossary: Fetal Heart Monitoring Terms
Index
‘Over de auteur
Nanci Koperski, RNC, MBA, MHSA, LNCC, is an international speaker and holds certificates in inpatient obstetrics and legal nurse consulting. She has been a labor and delivery, antepartal and neonatal nurse for 25 years.
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