Fetal heart monitoring is a common practice used by healthcare providers to examine a baby’s heart rate during the latter ...

External heart rate monitoring, the most common method of monitoring the fetus, may leave signs of fetal hypoxia undetected if the maternal pulse rate is not simultaneously monitored. The risk is that ...

The University of Maryland Medical System has launched NEST — Neonatal Outcomes Impacted by Escalation Safety Telemetry — a groundbreaking remote fetal monitoring center that provides real-time ...

Doctors differ greatly in how they interpret tracings. In a study in which four obstetricians examined 50 fetal heart rate tracings, they agreed in 22 percent of the cases. Two months later, the same ...

Cardiotocography (CTG) refers to the electronic recording of the fetal heart rate and uterine contractions. Fetal heart rate recorded through the mother’s abdomen is the most commonly used fetal ...