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"...has been one of the major resources in fetal monitoring since its inception....This book will help move us out of the 20th century and into the 21st."--Doody's Book Review Service
Designed for labor and delivery nurses, nurse midwives, nurses cross-training in L&D, and Ob/Gyn nurses and physicians, this workbook is a step-by-step guide to using the equipment and identifying FHR pattern components and the significance of those components. Everything you need to know to enable you to identify the common signs of fetal well-being and the indicators of fetal compromise are included in this guide.
Please see our separate entry for the third edition of the companion volume, Essentials of Fetal Monitoring, Third Edition.
To learn more about Dr. Murray's seminars and certification classes, as well as how to purchase copies of her Fetal Monitoring in Clinical Practice Multimedia Interactive CD-Rom package, please visit her website at www.fetalmonitoring.com
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorial Reviews
From The Critics
Reviewer: Maggie E Shaw, CNM, PhD(Oregon Health and Science University)Description: This book provides an overview of fetal monitoring during the antepartum and intrapartum periods, including the technology, physiology, terminology, and intervention options. Previous editions were published in 1997 and 1988.
Purpose: The preface states that the reason for the second edition was to expand the original text and create an all-encompassing resource. Ten years later, with this third edition, these objectives are both relevant and met by the author.
Audience: The author writes comprehensively and from an inclusive, historical perspective. Written for all levels of obstetrical practitioners, the book includes tables for quick pearls side-by-side with detailed explanations. It is appropriate for a beginner and as a resource for the more experienced provider. The author is known nationally, if not internationally, for her teaching contributions in this field.
Features: The author reviews the equipment and the basics of fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring and the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affect the FHR. She details fetal acid-base balance along with the hemodynamic and biochemical techniques for assessing the balance. The well-written discussion on variations of the FHR includes 56 maternal and 41 fetal conditions and their effect on the FHR. One area of concern is the imbalance between the large number of references that are more than five years old, many predating the first edition, and the noticeably smaller number of references from 2000 on.
Assessment: This book has been one of the major resources in fetal monitoring since its inception. It is more inclusive and extensive, and written for a larger audience than AWHONN's Fetal Heart Monitoring: Principles and Practices, 3rd edition (Kendall/Hunt, 2003), that is intended primarily for nurses. In a rapidly expanding technical world where we all struggle to stay on the cutting edge, this book will help move us out of the 20th century and into the 21st.
Renate Sward
This eagerly anticipated second edition of Murray's 1988 book has been worth the wait. The edition is twice the size of the first, with a wealth of new material. The first edition was known as ""the bible on fetal monitoring"" and this edition only enhances the author's reputation as a leading expert in the field. The purpose of this book is to provide in-depth information to professionals and students who deal with fetal monitoring. The book provides state-of-the-art information for nurses, nurse-midwives, physicians, medical students, residents, technicians, insurance company employees, paralegals, and lawyers -- anyone who is involved with fetal monitoring or interpretation of fetal monitoring. The author has established herself as a credible authority through extensive writing and lecturing for the past 13 years in the U.S. and internationally. This paperback book is well illustrated with black-and-white drawings and monitor tracings. Each chapter has an extensive reference list of up-to-date readings. Appendixes contain specific directions for procedures relative to maternal-fetal monitoring. Chapters include information on AIDS, acid-base balance, biochemical regulation of the fetal heart rate, archiving and retrieving fetal heart rate strips, computer applications in obstetrics, fetal pulse oximetry, and antepartum fetal monitoring. Although the table of contents clearly explains contents of the appendixes, chapters are given only a cursory listing that does not begin to highlight the vast array of information they contain. A must-buy book, this second edition is a state-of-the-art text valuable to all professionals involved with maternal-fetal monitoring.5 Stars! from Doody
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Michelle L. Murray, PhD, RNC, is an international educator, author, and expert in obstetric nursing. Dr. Murray's company, Learning Resources International, Inc. produces clinical and educational products and seminars for labor and delivery nursing and midwives. Since 1986, more than 50,000 obstetric care providers, including nurses, physicians, and midwives, have participated in Dr. Murray's classes and seminars. Her work has been published in journals such as Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care; The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing (MCN); the Journal of Perinatololgy; the Journal of Nursing Care Quality; and, the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN). Dr. Murray was also a contributor to the AWHONN publication Nursing Management of the Second Stage of Labor. Her best-selling books include Antepartal and Intrapartal Fetal Monitoring (3rd ed.) and Essentials of Fetal Monitoring (3ed ed.).
Table of Contents
Contributors and Corporate Sponsors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Index