title: Surveillance of fetal arrhythmias in the outpatient setting: current limitations and call for action.
abstract: Surveillance of fetal arrhythmias in the outpatient setting remains limited by lack of monitoring modalities. Despite technological advances made in the field of obstetrics, existing devices are not currently suitable to monitor fetal arrhythmias. In this report, the author describes the current and developing fetal heart rate monitoring technologies including the recent introduction of hand-held Doppler monitors for outpatient surveillance of fetal arrhythmias.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology,John Hopkins All Children's Heart Institute,All Children's Hospital,St Petersburg,Florida,United States of America.
authors.forename: Grace
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Freire
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000379:methods*; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015148:Cardiotocography; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000379:methods; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal
keywords: Fetal arrhythmia; cardiotocography; fetal electrocardiogram; hand-held doppler monitors; outpatient monitoring