EFM NCC questions with correct answers

Why use fetal monitoring? - Answer Primary goal is to prevent fetal and maternal morbidity and mortality (prevent injury and death to mother and/ or baby), to prevent bad patient outcomes. What percent of babies who experience a suboptimal event while being fetal monitored, develop cerebral palsy? - Answer 3% of babies with poor tracing develop cerebral palsy What are most sentinel events due to? - Answer Poor communication between providers. Most errors are traceable back to communication errors. Sentinel events - Answer bad things that happen to patients due to a human or equipment error, and not due to the reason that they came into the hospital (disease process) Equipment - Answer your hands (palpation) use fingertips, ultrasound transducer, FSE, tocodynamometer, Intrauterine Pressure Catheter, Auscultation (fetoscope, hand held doppler device). What if you can not get contractions? - Answer palpate and readjust IUPC resting tone - Answer 20-25 IUPC resting tone with aminoinfusion - Answer should not be above 40, troubleshoot if this is higher, weigh pads, make su