Feb
03
2019
Fetal Monitoring: Fetal Heart Rate Increased Variability
Increased variability or variance in fetal heart rate may signal fetal distress. I discuss it here.
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Increased variability or variance in fetal heart rate may signal fetal distress. I discuss it here.
Labor & delivery caregivers would interpret the fetal heart rate in this strip as minimally variable. See what that means and what to do about it.
Normal fetal heart rate is 110 to 160 with variance (called variability in caregiver terms) of 6 to 25 beats per minute from baseline.
Deviations in fetal heart rate may signal fetal stress or fetal distress, which is the central reason nurses, midwives and doctors use fetal monitoring during labor and delivery.
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