[VickyRN]

Excellent site:

Fetal Monitoring and Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) Variations

From American Family Physician:

Interpretation of the Electronic Fetal Heart Rate During Labor

Another excellent resource:

Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring

This website may also be of benefit (nice PowerPoint):

http://www.obgyn.net/fetal-monitorin...01/sharma01-ss

[sirI]

Excellent resource, VickyRN. Thank you for finding this!!

[jenrninmi]

Originally Posted by VickyRN

Excellent site:

Fetal Monitoring and Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) Variations

From American Family Physician:

Interpretation of the Electronic Fetal Heart Rate During Labor

Another excellent resource:

Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring

This website may also be of benefit (nice PowerPoint):

http://www.obgyn.net/fetal-monitorin...01/sharma01-ss

Wow! Thank you VickyRN!

[SmilingBluEyes]

wooooooooooooooooot!

ty ty ty~!

[SmilingBluEyes]

gonna sticky this one for a while for others' benefit.

[turtletyme]

Thanks for all of this good information!

[disashmon]

I am new to labor and delivery and found this site extremely helpful!! Thanks for making sense of this very important concept!!

[LbrNDeliveryRN]

This thread is great, but as being an AWHONN Fetal Monitoring Instructor, these sites are not representative of the new NICHD guidelines that AWHONN and ACOG have in place now. These new guidelines include many changes, but one that is the hardest to get used to is that there is no documentation of short term and long term variability....it is now just variability. External or Internal monitoring is assesed and documented the same as far as variability is concerned. Also, baselines are to be documented as an average of the variability...such as 140-150, (or 140's) would be 145. I will do some research to see if there is a site out there to post with the new guidelines.
Thank you!!!

[sirI]

Hello and welcome to allnurses.com, LbrNdeliveryRN

We are happy to have you with us.

Thank you for updating our thread. Since it was created in 2006, I'm sure there are more up-to-date links. We will appreciate the new information.

We hope you enjoy the site here at allnurses!!!

[LittleLisaLawrence]

AWHONN now offers an introduction to fetal heart monitoring course online: http://www.awhonn.org/awhonn/content.do?name=02_PracticeResources/2G5a_OnlineLearningCenter.htm#IntroFHMOnline

And of course, the tutorial includes NICHD guidelines!