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Carol J. Harvey received her undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and her Master's in Maternal-Fetal Nursing from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She has worked as a tertiary care staff nurse in labor and delivery in both Memphis and Denver and has been employed as a Clinical Nurse Specialist of High Risk Obstetrics at Vanderbilt University Hospital. Ms. Harvey is currently the Clinical Nurse Specialist for Critical Care Obstetrics, Department Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. She serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing and is completing a text on Critical Care Obstetrical Nursing.
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INTERPRETING THE ELECTRONIC FETAL MONITOR Strategies for Management
Article first published online: 10 JAN 2011
DOI: 10.1016/0091-2182(89)90033-5
1989 American College of Nurse Midwives
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Harvey, C. J. (1989), INTERPRETING THE ELECTRONIC FETAL MONITOR Strategies for Management. Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 34: 75–84. doi: 10.1016/0091-2182(89)90033-5
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Carol J. Harvey received her undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and her Master's in Maternal-Fetal Nursing from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She has worked as a tertiary care staff nurse in labor and delivery in both Memphis and Denver and has been employed as a Clinical Nurse Specialist of High Risk Obstetrics at Vanderbilt University Hospital. Ms. Harvey is currently the Clinical Nurse Specialist for Critical Care Obstetrics, Department Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. She serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing and is completing a text on Critical Care Obstetrical Nursing.
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ABSTRACT
Electronic fetal monitoring offers the practitioner involved in the intrapartum care of women a mechanism to validate the fetus' physiologic adaptation to the labor and delivery experience. Utilizing a predetermined framework for constant assessment of fetal well-being will assist the clinician in the bedside management of these patients. This pathway of reassurance for fetal evaluation is an effective tool in the intrapartum observations of the fetus. If the fetus can demonstrate his physiologic well-being, labor may continue. However, if there are no signs of reassurance, immediate delivery of the fetus should be considered.