Main description:

Authored by a nurse-midwife, a perinatologist, and a nurse, Mosby's Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 8th Edition is an evidence-based resource on fetal heart rate monitoring for all clinicians - whether you are a nurse, a physician or a midwife, a student or an instructor, this guide has information crucial to your practice.  Designed specifically for the clinical environment, it provides a single source for interpretation and management of electronic fetal monitoring - in labor and delivery, the intensive care unit, inpatient antepartum units, or the obstetric or midwifery office

Contents:

1. A Brief History of Fetal Monitoring
2. Physiologic Basis for Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
3. Methods and Instrumentation
4. Uterine Activity Evaluation and Management
5. Pattern Recognition and Interpretation
6. Intrapartum Management of the Fetal Heart Rate Tracing
7. Influence of Gestational Age on Fetal Heart Rate
8. Fetal Assessment in Non-Obstetric Settings
9. Antepartum Fetal Assessment
10. Patient Safety, Risk Management, and Documentation
11. Obstetric Models and Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Europe
Appendix A: Amnioinfusion
Appendix B: Instructions for Reviewing Appendix B FHR Tracings
Appendix C: Self-assessment with answer key
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations