Abstract: Extracted from text ... September 2005, Vol. 11, No. 3
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SAJOG
The origin of antenatal fetal heart rate monitoring
(AFM) appears lost in the mists of time. Odendaal, 1 in
his signal thesis on cardiotocography, mentions that
Legumeau de Kegadarek had first observed the
occurrence of fetal heart rate decelerations in 1822,
after which Von Winckel, in 1893, observed that
bradycardia may be associated with poor fetal outcome.
Electronic AFM has remained an integral
part of obstetric practice since the early 1970s, when
continuous monitoring became established and the
true significance of decelerations was appreciated.
Developing communities often have inordinately high
perinatal mortality ..
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-04-01
Language: en
Type: letter
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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