How to Read Tocometer?
When You're Looking at the Screen, the Fetal Heart Rate Is Usually on the Top and the Contractions at the Bottom. When the Machine Prints out Graph Paper...
When you're looking at the screen, the fetal heart rate is usually on the top and the contractions at the bottom. When the machine prints out graph paper, you'll see the fetal heart rate to the left and the contractions to the right. Sometimes it's easier to read printouts by looking at them sideways.
How do you read a CTG machine?
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The most popular structure can be remembered using the acronym DR C BRAVADO:
- DR: Define risk.
- C: Contractions.
- BRa: Baseline rate.
- V: Variability.
- A: Accelerations.
- D: Decelerations.
- O: Overall impression.
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What does contractions look like on the monitor?
The monitor records the duration of contractions and the time between them but doesn't tell you the strength of the contraction. Each contraction resembles a hill or a bell-shaped curve, starting low, rising slowly, and then returning to baseline.
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