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Episode 46: Obstetric Pharmacology and Fetal Assessment with Mike Hofkamp

Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast

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Ultrasonography and Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

There's three types of exams for ultrasonography. the developing embryo fetus and then later on you're going to use transabdominal because the fetus is going to be way up in the chest and some people have false positive and false negative findings. The field heart rate is superimposed upon the your contractions on a monitoring strip, that's what gets us to our decelerations yep. We use it to detect fetal bradycardio which is an indication of fetal well-being that is not very good.

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