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Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring: The 5-Tier System, Third Edition describes the common practices of fetal heart rate monitoring and interpretation in midwifery and nursing practice. It contains the most up-to-date evidence for clinical management of fetal heart rate monitoring during a woman's labor. The Third Edition outlines the basic physiology of the fetal heart and fetal circulation, acid-base balance, and fetal cerebral metabolism. In addition, it describes the fetal heart rate monitoring technology currently in use. Also reviewed are the nomenclature, definitions, and the underlying physiologic mechanisms for variant fetal heart rate patterns.

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Julian T. Parer MD, PhD was a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the Univ of California San Francisco. Since 1974 he had done clinical care in Maternal Fetal Medicine, teaching and research, and was widely published. He Chaired the first National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development consensus conferences on FHR monitoring in 1997, was a member of the 2008 NICHD conference on the same topic, and was a member of the consensus committee of the Federation of International Societies of Gynecology & Obstetrics. Associate Professor Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences University of California at San Francisco San Francisco, California Deputy Editor Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health Tomoaki Ikeda MD, PhD, Is Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Mie, Japan. He has a long history of clinical care, education and research in care of the fetus. As noted above he is a lead maternal Fetal Medicine specialist in the dissemination of the standardized approach to FHR management throughout the whole of Japan, potentially optimizing care for over 1 million Japanese babies per year.

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