Course Module

Fetal Heart Rate Patterns - Google Doc

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Practice Guidelines Guidance

Online Resources

Websites

• The 2008 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development workshop report on electronic fetal monitoring: update on definitions, interpretation, and research guidelines. Macones GA, Hankins GDV, Spong CY, Hauth J, Moore T.

• Interpretation of the Electronic Fetal Heart Rate During Labor

• AWHONN Position Statement Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring, Includes Recommended Frequency of Intermittent Auscultation

• ACNM Intermittent Auscultation for Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Surveillance

• Perinatology Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring

• GLOWM Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring

• What is the most effective way to listen intermittently to a baby’s heart in labour to improve baby’s wellbeing? : Cochrane

• Listening to Baby During Labour : Midwife Thinking

PDF

• Oregon Practice Standard AAT.pdf (Auscultated Acceleration Test)

• Oregon AAT Chart.pdf (Auscultated Acceleration Test)

Courses

• Fetal Assessments in Labor, 3rd Edition with Holly Scholles, Hive CE. (Paid course) This 8 hour course was intended for those attending birth in homes and birth centers, and can be used for any care provider utilizing handheld Doppler for intrapartum fetal monitoring, in any setting.

• Fundamentals of Fetal Health Surveillance online manual, University of British Colombia (Free course)

Videos

Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Review

Dr Cal Shipley, M.D. 

(19:35)

An in-depth animated review of fetal heart rate monitoring (FHR), including maternal-fetal anatomy & physiology and analysis of normal FHR, decelerations, accelerations, fetal tachycardia and fetal bradycardia.

The Fetoscope : My Favorite Midwifery Tool

It's Your Birth Midwifery Services, LLC

(03:04)

This week I want to teach you about the fetoscope. The fetoscope is an amazing tool used to listen to baby's heartbeat without the use of ultrasound. Learn more about the positives and negatives of fetoscopes in my latest video!

Difference between Fetal, Placenta, & Mum's Heartbeat on Doppler

(00:27)

To show the difference between each heartbeat around your womb when you're pregnant.