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Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

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Fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring is important because it provides basic patterns that can be correlated to the acid-base status, circulatory volume, and oxygenation status of the fetus through brainstem detection and subsequent cardiac response. It has numerous uses during the antepartum and intrapartum stages [1].

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Ocala Regional Medical Center, Ocala, FL, USA

    Ilya Aleksandrovskiy

  2. U. S. Air Force Medical Center Keesler, Biloxi, MI, USA

    Nathaniel Lisenbee

  3. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Joseph A. Tyndall

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  1. College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Latha Ganti

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Aleksandrovskiy, I., Lisenbee, N., Tyndall, J.A. (2022). Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring. In: Ganti, L. (eds) Atlas of Emergency Medicine Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85047-0_118

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