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Mosby’s® Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring

  • 9th Edition - March 10, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Lisa A. Miller, David A. Miller, Rebecca L. Cypher
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perinatal**Find real-world, clinically useful information on all aspects of electronic fetal monitoring! Written by clinicians for cl… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perinatal**

Find real-world, clinically useful information on all aspects of electronic fetal monitoring! Written by clinicians for clinicians, Mosby’s Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 9th Edition provides an evidence-based, collaborative approach to fetal heart monitoring during labor and in the antepartum period. It covers the physiologic basis for FHR monitoring, methods and instrumentation, standardized terminology, pattern recognition and interpretation, and management of care. Authored by a nurse-midwife, a perinatologist, and a nurse, this compact guide prepares you for success on the EFM certification exam and for success in today’s clinical practice.

Key features

  • Pocket-sized format makes this guide ideal to carry and use in the clinical setting, and a colorful design makes information easier to find
  • Coverage of fetal heart rate assessment, evaluation, interpretation, and management is supported by evidence-based practice and literature, helping you prioritize care and make clinical decisions
  • Patient safety and risk management strategies include case studies and legal commentary, plus guidelines for providing safe and competent care
  • Information on the relationship between fetal heart rate patterns and neonatal outcomes provides a guide to the correct use of fetal monitoring
  • Illustrations, tables, and fetal monitor tracings highlight critical information
  • Coverage of innovative practices supports patient safety and improved outcomes through the use of a common language for fetal heart rate patterns, a standardized approach to interpretation, a discussion of emergency preparedness, and a discussion of human factor issues such as improved communication, situational awareness, no-fault/just culture, and teamwork
  • Practical appendices offer a guide to FHR tracings and interpretation as well as self-assessment questions for credentialing and certification exam preparation
  • Expert author team provides clinical insight along with international presence

Readership

Practicing nurses in labor and delivery, fetal intensive care units, antepartum inpatient units or outpatient prenatal care settings; physicians, residents, and midwives

Table of contents

1. A Brief History of Fetal Monitoring

2. Physiologic Basis for Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

3. Methods and Instrumentation

4. Uterine Activity Evaluation and Management

5. Pattern Recognition and Interpretation

6. Intrapartum Management of the Fetal Heart Rate Tracing

7. Influence of Gestational Age on Fetal Heart Rate

8. Fetal Assessment in Non-Obstetric Settings

9. Antepartum Fetal Assessment

10. Patient Safety, Risk Management, and Documentation

11. Obstetric Models and Electronic Fetal Monitoring in Europe

Appendix
A: Amnioinfusion
B: Instructions for Reviewing Appendix B FHR Tracings
C: Self-Assessment

Product details

  • Edition: 9
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 13, 2021
  • Language: English

About the authors

LM

Lisa A. Miller

Affiliations and expertise
President, Perinatal Risk Management and Education Services, USA

DM

David A. Miller

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Pediatrics Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine Children's Hospital Los Angeles Director, USC-CHLA Fetal Maternal Center Los Angeles, California, USA

RC

Rebecca L. Cypher

Affiliations and expertise
Perinatal Nurse Practitioner Founder, Cypher Maternal Fetal Solutions, LLC Gig Harbor, Washington, USA