The only textbook in this essential area of obstetrics authored primarily by physicians,Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, 5th Edition, offers highly illustrated, comprehensive information on understanding and interpreting fetal heart rate tracings and their implications. Edited by Drs. Alison G. Cahill and Nandini Raghuraman, this substantially revised edition is an indispensable tool for promoting patient safety and improving outcomes—ideal for obstetric physicians, nurses, PAs, trainees, and all other members of the labor and delivery team.

• Providesclear, easy-to-follow guidanceon physiology, clinical management of high-risk complications, liability and risk management, and much more
• Featuresfully up-to-date, evidence-based chaptersrevised by contributing authors who have specific expertise in each topic, highlighted byhundreds of current fetal heart rate scansand line drawings
• Includes a new section onFuture Researchin each chapter
• Coverskey issuessuch as the physiological basis for monitoring, fetal hypoxemia and neonatal encephalopathy, instrumentation and pattern recognition, intrapartum and antepartum management, fetal central nervous system effects on monitor patterns, and the use of backup methods for evaluation of abnormal patterns

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The only textbook in this essential area of obstetrics authored primarily by physicians,Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, 5th Edition, offers highly illustrated, comprehensive information on understanding and interpreting fetal heart rate tracings and their implications. Edited by Drs. Alison G. Cahill and Nandini Raghuraman, this substantially revised edition is an indispensable tool for promoting patient safety and improving outcomes—ideal for obstetric physicians, nurses, PAs, trainees, and all other members of the labor and delivery team.