Pattern of the normal human fetal heart rate
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Vol. 89 (4), 276-284
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.1982.tb04696.x
Abstract
With an improved method for fitting baselines to human fetal heart rate traces, the patterns of episodic variations, accelerations and decelerations were similar in 64-min records, [215] from normal pregnancies and in 95 such records from pregnancies with mild hypertension and normal outcome. The change in signal loss with gestational age, by Doppler ultrasound for recording heart rate, was entirely due to the greater loss in episodes of high heart rate variation. The changes in the numbers and sizes of accelerations and decelerations with gestational age were described. There were many records which had only 1 or no acceleration at 28-33 wk gestation (16.2%) or 34-41 wk (7.3%). Only 2 (0.7%) had episodes of high heart rate variation lasting < 10 min from 28 wk onward. The presence of these episodes, with clusters of fetal movements, is likely to be a better numerical index of normality.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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