title: AANA Journal course: advanced scientific concepts: update for nurse anesthetists--an introduction to fetal heart rate monitoring.
abstract: Although not actually a new technology, fetal heart rate monitoring is a technology that many anesthetists know little or nothing about. Even those who regularly provide anesthesia care for obstetric patients frequently know only what is picked up along the way. The following lesson provides an introduction to the most commonly encountered and clinically important fetal heart rate patterns. With this information, the well-being of the fetus can be considered when making a preanesthesia or intra-anesthetic assessment of a pregnant patient.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Fiedler
mesh_terms: D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D005260:Female; D005323:Fetal Monitoring; D006340:Heart Rate, Fetal; D006801:Humans; D009719:Nurse Anesthetists; D011247:Pregnancy