Small-volume amnioinfusion: a potential stimulus of intrapartum fetal heart rate accelerations

Joseph R Wax1, Nina Flaherty, Michael G Pinette

  • 1Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, USA.

We describe a recurrent nonreassuring fetal heart rate pattern in which small-volume amnioinfusions apparently evoked fetal heart rate accelerations suggested fetal well-being, allowing that progressive labor that culminated in the vaginal delivery of a healthy infant.

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