Since the 1970s, electronic fetal monitoring has been the go-to technology in perinatal obstetrics for the detection of fetal distress during labor. Although the technology has changed slightly in the ...

High resolution visualization of fetal cardiac development, especially during second trimester provides dramatic insights on heart muscle fiber orientation. The fetal heart's internal map allows us to ...

The objective of this study is to present and describe the fetal heart rate appearance in pregnancies complicated by an antenatal spontaneous umbilical cord hematoma that resulted in a live birth.

It’s important to monitor your baby’s heart rate and rhythm to make sure the baby is doing well during the third trimester of your pregnancy and during labor. The fetal heart rate should be between ...

July 1, 2009 — The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has refined its definitions, classifications, and interpretations of fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring and published the ...

This was a cross-sectional study of two groups of healthy pregnant women who were recruited, a fasting and a nonfasting control group. Each pregnant woman gave a blood sample, and had a computerized ...

Re “Doctors Stick With Unreliable Medical Tool to Justify C-Sections” (front page, Nov. 7): As the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, I found that this article, ...

The sudden change in the fetal heart tracing and the severe abdominal pain, accompanied by frequent contractions in the setting of preeclampsia, make placental abruption the likely diagnosis. Most ...

It is unclear whether using fetal electrocardiographic (ECG) ST-segment analysis as an adjunct to conventional intrapartum electronic fetal heart-rate monitoring modifies intrapartum and neonatal ...

Knowledge of fetal oxygen saturation, as an adjunct to electronic fetal monitoring, may be associated with a significant change in the rate of cesarean deliveries or the infant's condition at birth.