ACOG Issues Guidance for Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
By Todd Neale
June 24, 2009
MedPage Today

New guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians recommend the use of a three-category system to simplify the interpretation of fetal heart rate (FHR) tracings during labor.

The guidelines, published in the July issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, were developed by the ACOG Committee on Practice Bulletins with the help of George Macones, MD, of Washington University in St. Louis.