Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3437895 | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2008 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We report cases of unexpected adverse fetal outcome from monitored labors in which the fetal heart rate tracing was interpreted as reassuring. In these cases, portions from another signal source, usually maternal, were imperceptibly substituted into the fetal tracing in a way that masked the evidence of fetal compromise.
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Authors
Duncan R. Neilson Jr, Roger K. Freeman, Shelora Mangan,