title: Telephone transmission of fetal heart rate monitor data. The experience at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
abstract: This report reviews the experience at the University of Connecticut Health Center using the Fetal Assessment Consultative Transmission Service (FACTS) system during a 2 1/2-year period. This system, which permits direct transmission of antepartum and/or intrapartum fetal heart rate tracings via a telephone line, allows the obstetric staffs of smaller community hospitals to obtain an immediate consultation from the University of Connecticut Health Center on a 24 hour per day basis. A total of 511 fetal heart rate tracings were analyzed. Two hundred forty-five were intrapartum, 206 antepartum, and 60 were transmitted for educational purposes. The results indicate an imperative need for such a service from a tertiary care center to improve the quality of regional perinatal care and to determine the future direction of the regional educational program for physicians and nurses.
mesh_terms: D003237:Connecticut; D004501:Education, Medical; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000502:physiology*; D005323:Fetal Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D010500:Perinatology / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012040:Regional Health Planning; D013689:Telephone / Q000379:methods*