title: Fetal surveillance.
abstract: The primary objective of fetal surveillance is to prevent antenatal fetal deaths, which still account for greater than one half of perinatal mortality. Several techniques for assessing fetal well-being are available to the practicing obstetrician, including fetal movement counting, nonstress testing, contraction stress testing, fetal biophysical assessment with real-time sonography, and Doppler ultrasonography for measuring umbilical and fetal blood flow. Despite several unanswered questions regarding fetal surveillance, identification of high-risk pregnancies allows appropriate fetal evaluation that can reduce intrauterine fetal death rates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jack D. Weiler Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York.
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Divon
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Barnhard
mesh_terms: D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005324:Fetal Movement; D006340:Heart Rate, Fetal; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012212:Rheology; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal