In contrast, an obstetrician with costs on items ranging from equipment, such as sutures, speculums, colposcopes, microscopes,
fetal monitors, and ultrasounds, to malpractice costs in the tens of thousand of dollars per year, has to make a pretty penny before he starts to show a profit.
Hospitals sometimes keep the
fetal monitor strip separate from the patient's medical records, requiring counsel to request the strip from the labor and delivery department.
Assuming fetal distress is a random event, a temporal pattern for the diagnosis of this problem suggests that physicians interpret and act on changes in
fetal monitor tracings or use fetal monitoring differently during late night hours.
About 4 1/2 hours later, the
fetal monitor indicated decelerations of the fetal heart rate, and the ObGyn was notified.
She was placed on a
fetal monitor, given tocolytics to stop contractions, and prescribed betamethasone to mature the twins' lungs.
* Use of electronic
fetal monitors is more than 85 percent on low-risk women.
The 10
fetal monitors - vital for monitoring both mother and baby during childbirth - will be used at Birmingham Maternity Hospital.
What do radical feminists tell women who choose to "medicalize" the birth process by using such devices as electronic
fetal monitors? Or the many women who seek out new technologies in order to have a child?