Antepartal and Intrapartal Fetal Monitoring : Third Edition

The third edition provides practitioners with the needed references and resources they need to provide quality care to women and their fetuses. It is a cutting edge resource for a practice-based discipline, with details and references that are specific and clear. In addition, the protocols and procedures found in the appendix are applicable to clinical practices that include fetal monitors.

"...has been one of the major resources in fetal monitoring since its inception....This book will help move us out of the 20th century and into the 21st."--Doody's Book Review Service

Designed for labor and delivery nurses, nurse midwives, nurses cross-training in L&D, and Ob/Gyn nurses and physicians, this workbook is a step-by-step guide to using the equipment and identifying FHR pattern components and the significance of those components. Everything you need to know to enable you to identify the common signs of fetal well-being and the indicators of fetal compromise are included in this guide.

Please see our separate entry for the third edition of the companion volume, Essentials of Fetal Monitoring, Third Edition.

To learn more about Dr. Murray's seminars and certification classes, as well as how to purchase copies of her Fetal Monitoring in Clinical Practice Multimedia Interactive CD-Rom package, please visit her website at www.fetalmonitoring.com

Renate Sward

This eagerly anticipated second edition of Murray's 1988 book has been worth the wait. The edition is twice the size of the first, with a wealth of new material. The first edition was known as ""the bible on fetal monitoring"" and this edition only enhances the author's reputation as a leading expert in the field. The purpose of this book is to provide in-depth information to professionals and students who deal with fetal monitoring. The book provides state-of-the-art information for nurses, nurse-midwives, physicians, medical students, residents, technicians, insurance company employees, paralegals, and lawyers -- anyone who is involved with fetal monitoring or interpretation of fetal monitoring. The author has established herself as a credible authority through extensive writing and lecturing for the past 13 years in the U.S. and internationally. This paperback book is well illustrated with black-and-white drawings and monitor tracings. Each chapter has an extensive reference list of up-to-date readings. Appendixes contain specific directions for procedures relative to maternal-fetal monitoring. Chapters include information on AIDS, acid-base balance, biochemical regulation of the fetal heart rate, archiving and retrieving fetal heart rate strips, computer applications in obstetrics, fetal pulse oximetry, and antepartum fetal monitoring. Although the table of contents clearly explains contents of the appendixes, chapters are given only a cursory listing that does not begin to highlight the vast array of information they contain. A must-buy book, this second edition is a state-of-the-art text valuable to all professionals involved with maternal-fetal monitoring.

...has been one of the major resources in fetal monitoring since its inception....This book will help move us out of the 20th century and into the 21st."--"Doody's Book Review Service" Designed for labor and delivery nurses, nurse midwives, nurses cross-training in L&D, and Ob/Gyn nurses and physicians, this workbook is a step-by-step guide to using the equipment and identifying FHR pattern components and the significance of those components. Everything you need to know to enable you to identify the common signs of fetal well-being and the indicators of fetal compromise are included in this guide. Please see our separate entry for the third edition of the companion volume, "Essentials of Fetal Monitoring, Third Edition." To learn more about Dr. Murray's seminars and certification classes, as well as how to purchase copies of her "Fetal Monitoring in Clinical Practice" Multimedia Interactive CD-Rom package, please visit her website at (http://www.fetalmonitoring.com) www.fetalmonitoring.com Fetal and maternal monitoring equipment The baseline, accelerations, and decelerations Intrinsic factors that affect the fetal heart rate Extrinsic factors that affect oxygen delivery and the FHR Acid-base balance Prediction and prevention of intrapartal fetal asphyxia Hemodynamic and biochemical fetal monitoring Variations of the fetal heart rate Antepartal fetal monitoring Biophysical fetal assessment. Provides practitioners with the references and resources they need to provide quality care to women and their fetuses. This title serves as a resource for a practice-based discipline, with details and references. The protocols and procedures found in the appendix are applicable to clinical practices that include fetal monitors.