Fetal heart rate monitoring is widely used by almost every obstetrician as a way to document the case & to help decrease health care costs. This is a short reference on the physiologic benefits, instrumentation, application & interpretation of fetal heart rate monitoring. The second half of the book uses actual FHR strips & cases to illustrate various anomalies fetal distress, fetal distress in prematurity, fetus with CNS dysfunction. Several new drugs have been introduced for use during labor that effect FHR. New for this edition Addition of Neonatal Encephalopathy & recent studies on CP New information & discussion of most recent