Episode 54: Term Pregnancy Part 1 with Jacqueline Galvan
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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What's Normal Tracing?
The fetal heart tone tracings in relation to maternal contractions. Means the heart rate goes up and down especially with fetal movement. When there's a late deceleration, mean the fetal heart tone decreases after the unit contraction. That's generally a bad sign and is a sign of uro placental insufficiency. And then there's variable decelerations meaning that the heart rate of the fetus doesn't necessarily correlate with the contractions or umbilical horror compression.
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