D1 - Management of Category II Fetal Heart Rate Tracings

Title: D1 - Management of Category II Fetal Heart Rate Tracings

Disciplines: Childbearing (CB)

Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify fetal heart rate patterns that meet the criteria for Category II designation.
  2. Describe components of an algorithm for the management of category II fetal heart rate tracings.
  3. Apply the algorithm to selected fetal heart rate tracings.
Submission Description:
In 2008 an NICHD concensus panel proposed a uniform system of terminology in which any FHR pattern is classified as Category I, II or III. Recommendations were then made by ACOG for management of Category I and Category III tracings. Management of Category II tracings, which represent >80% of tracings in labor, remains challenging. This session will describe a newly published algorithm for management of Category II tracings and will apply the algorithm to selected tracings.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014: 9:45 AM-10:45 AM
Coronado K & L (Disney Coronado Springs)
Presenting Author:
Susan Drummond, RN, MSN, C-EFM
Moderator:
Catherine Ivory, PhD, RNC-OB
The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.