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Mosby's Pocket Guide to Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach, 6e (Nursing Pocket Guides)

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This is an excellent, compact book with everything you need to know about fetal monitoring. Fantastic pathways, clinical guidelines, and examples of EFM strips. Wording is clearly defined, and is the most up to date according to NICHD guidelines. This handy little book is small enough to keep in your pocket while working in the hospital unit. Great for nurses, students, midwives, and physicians!

This pocket guide is great learning! It is the basis for an 8 hour course and exam for the Labor & Delivery nurses at Women and Children's Hospital in Buffalo, NY. The authors actually taught a course to familiarize the instructors that teach our class.

We used this book as a textbook for my midwifery college. The information within the book is easy to understand and well written. Some points in the book are somewhat vague, so I do recommend combining this book with other sources (such as Dr. David Miller's webcast on FHR, or other books or videos). Overall though it is an excellent resource!

If you aren't from the medical field and are working in the perinatal domain as a software, UX or usability engineer, this book is definitely a must. It gives you a good overview of the workflow, terminology and other relevant items to get started and create artifacts which are truly useful.

Excellent resource in general. I used it to study for the NCC EFM exam and it was great. Explainations are thorough without being too wordy and drawn out. It has all of the most up to date NICHD terminology as well.

This book was extremely thorough and detailed about fetal monitoring. I included the most updated information and was very helpful in passing the NCC exam. I highly recommend this book to the entry level nurse learning about fetal monitoring to the nurse who has many years of experience.

Has everything you could possibly be looking for.
I like it because it's easy to carry in your pocket, for quick reference.
Has all the updates.
Lettering could be a little bigger.
Would recommend

Overall, the book is good. However, the book does have some problems. First, on p. 97, accelerations for gestational age equal to or > 32 weeks are defined as having peaks lasting equal to or > 10 seconds, which is incorrect. The peaks should last equal to or > 15 secs. Similarly, the peaks for gestational age < 32 weeks are defined as lasting equal to or > 15 secs, which is wrong--they should last equal to or > 10 secs.

Also, the standard for documenting the baseline fetal heart rate should be expressed in one number (e.g., 145); however, the examples in the Appendix describe a range of heart rates (e.g., 145 - 150), which contradicts fetal monitoring interpretation documentation standards. Furthermore, the sample NST strips in the Appendix are shown on European monitor paper (1 cm/min), which is confusing since the standard US paper is 3 cm/min. I would have liked to see more sample NST strips with interpretations for practice purposes.