title: [Electronic surveillance during delivery. A method of reading the tracings].
abstract: A method for reading the foetal heart rate tracings and a guide of management advise in each case have been established from a review of the literature and the study of 500 records. The tracings are schematically divided into three categories according to the presumed risk of foetal distress: normal or "tolerable" tracings, alarm symptoms and danger symptoms. For each categorie, and according to the duration of the variations, a type of management is proposed. Other diagnostic means, such as capillary blood pH measurement are desirable to improve the foetal state diagnostic and make the treatment more precise.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D005316:Fetal Distress / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D011247:Pregnancy; D014590:Uterine Contraction
vernacular_title: Surveillance électronique au cours du travail. Une méthode de lecture des tracés