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Fetal well-being during labour is usually evaluated by fetal heart rate monitoring. Fetal blood sampling and analysis (FBS) of fetal acid-base status are very important supplements to this monitoring, but these procedures are invasive only giving discontinuous information. Tissue-pH monitoring is continuous (Weber,1982), but this method is also invasive and because of technical problems with the electrode not applicable for routine monitoring at present. Transcutaneous carbon dioxide (tc-pCO2) monitoring is the only acid-base parameter which can be measured continuously and non-invasively. In previous studies fetal tc-pCO2 has demonstrated a significant correlation to fetal capillary blood pCO2 and to umbilical artery blood pCO2 (Schmidt et al.,1984; Nickelsen et al.,1986).
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Nickelsen, C., Weber, T. (1987). Continuous Fetal Acid-Base Assessment During Labour by tc-pCO2 Monitoring. In: Huch, A., Huch, R., Rooth, G. (eds) Continuous Transcutaneous Monitoring. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1927-6_23
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