title: Fetal assessment: do newer technologies offer better assessment and outcomes?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The present manuscript reviews recent data on fetal intrapartum surveillance with special attention to new technologies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Continuous fetal heart-rate monitoring, fetal blood sampling, intrapartum stimulation tests, fetal pulse oximetry and fetal electrocardiography will be reviewed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  From the available data it appears that to date the analysis of the sinus tachycardia segment of the fetal electrocardiography used in conjunction with continuous fetal heart-rate monitoring is the method of choice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. marc.vandevelde@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van de Velde
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pexsters
authors.forename: Myriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hanssens