Longitudinal fetal heart rate changes are not generally disregarded but should be supplemented by meaningful categorization of decelerations
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Intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring. VIII. Atypical variable decelerations.
A total of 1,996 fetal heart rate (FHR) tracings were analyzed to assess the prognostic significance of variable decelerations. Nineteen percent (186 cases) of 988 tracings with variable decelerations in the last 30 minutes of monitored labor exhibited signs of atypia listed in order of frequency: (1) loss of initial acceleration, (2) slow return to the baseline FHR, (3) loss of secondary accel...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0002-9378
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2016.09.092