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hypoxia - low O2 in tissue
hypoxemia - low O2 in blood
acidosis - increased hydrogen ions in tissue
asphyxia - hypoxia without metabolic acidosis
acidemia - increased hydrogen ions in blood
sensitivity - ability to detect a genuinely healthy fetus; EFM ____________ is high
specificity - the ability to detect a genuinely compromised fetus; EFM ___________ is VERY low
reliability - diagnosis of fetal well-being has a high ___________ (related to its high sensitivity for
well-being). Diagnosis of fetal compromise has a low reliability (related to varying clinical
interpretations and specificity for compromise)
IA (intermittent auscultation) - useful for determining FHR and presence of decels if any; cannot used
to determine type of decel, cannot determine variability
3 cm/min - horizontal axis of EFM paper speed
30 bpm - vertical axis of EFM paper speed
moving heart of fetus - high-frequency US waves reflect off of what?
2 cm - must be how many cm dilated to use a FSE