Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring. Baseline fetal heart rate fhr.
Interpretation Of The Electronic Fetal Heart Rate During Labor American Family Physician
Interruption of fetal oxygenation has the potential to result in hypoxic neurologic injury.
Fetal heart rate monitoring. Fetal heart rate monitoring this document should be read in conjunction with the disclaimer. Obstetrics gynaecology. Am j obstet gynecol 2012.
Your healthcare provider may do fetal heart monitoring during late pregnancy and labor. Fetal heart rate monitoring measures the heart rate and rhythm of your baby fetus. Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring efm was first introduced at yale university in 1958 1 since then continuous efm has been widely used in the detection of fetal compromise and the.
This lets your healthcare provider see how your baby is doing. Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring is a widely utilized means of assessment of fetal status during labor. The baseline fhr is the heart rate during a 10 minute segment rounded to the nearest 5 beat per minute increment excluding periods of marked fhr variability periodic or episodic changes and segments of baseline that differ by more than 25 beats per minute.
Courtesy of david a. The monitoring of fetal heart rate fhr status is an important method to check well being of the baby during labor. Indications for performing a cardiotocograph ctg there is no evidence to support the use of routine antenatal or intrapartum ctg in.
If you re pregnant your doctor will want to make sure your baby is healthy and. Since the electronic fhr monitoring was introduced 40 years ago it has been expected to be an innovative screening test to detect fetuses who are becoming hypoxic and who may benefit from cesarean delivery or operative vaginal delivery. The average fetal heart rate is between 110 and 160 beats per minute.
Fetal heart rate monitoring. Just as the oxygen pathway from the environment to the fetus includes a series of sequential anatomic steps the pathway from normal fetal. Fetal heart rate monitoring is a process that lets your doctor see how fast your baby s heart is beating.
Whereas little evidence exists regarding efficacy this modality continues to be used extensively in every modern labor and delivery unit in developed countries.