Guide to Fetal Monitoring and Assessment (Nursing Pocket Guides) - Softcover

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Designed specifically for use in the clinical environment, this pocket guide provides a single source of information for the care and management of the patient in the labor and delivery suite, the fetal intensive care unit, the LDRP (labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum), and the antepartum inpatient unit or ambulatory care setting. This guide also provides up-to-date content on all aspects of electronic fetal monitoring, from operating equipment to interpreting data.

Provides portable and practical information for evaluating intrapartum and antepartum fetal status.The guide is pocket-sized, two-color, and features an outline, tabular format for easy retrieval of information.Care is presented in a step-by-step sequence with rationales for nursing interventions.Presents a consistent, outline format that includes the description, characteristics, etiology, clinical significance, and intervention for each situation or condition.Includes the latest information on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) standard definitions for fetal heart rate patterns.Presents comprehensive information on fetal oxygen saturation monitoring that has the potential of decreasing cesarean deliveries.Incorporates guidelines for culturally sensitive care of the patient.

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