Configuration of the fetal electrocardiogram in ambulatory women in labor monitored with wideband telemetry.
The fetal electrocardiogram (ECG) in 23 ambulatory women in labor was monitored successfully with a single-channel FM telemetry unit with a 0.5-100-Hz wideband receiver to improve the quality of the ECG complex. An inverted QRS complex was seen in a patient with a deceleration and an inverted T wave during a deceleration in a patient confined to bed. A maternal artifact was transmitted in a third. The ECG complex was identical when wired patients were switched to telemetry. Thus, fetal heart rate and ECG configuration can be monitored accurately in ambulatory pregnant women.
D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001919:Bradycardia / Q000175:diagnosis; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D005318:Fetal Heart; D005323:Fetal Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*