Acceleration and deceleration capacity of fetal heart rate in an in-vivo sheep model.

BACKGROUND: Fetal heart rate (FHR) variability is an indirect index of fetal autonomic nervous system (ANS) integrity. FHR variability analysis in labor fails to detect early hypoxia and acidemia. Phase-rectified signal averaging (PRSA) is a new method of complex biological signals analysis that is...

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Main Authors: Massimo W Rivolta, Tamara Stampalija, Daniela Casati, Bryan S Richardson, Michael G Ross, Martin G Frasch, Axel Bauer, Enrico Ferrazzi, Roberto Sassi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4139279?pdf=render