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The response of the fetal heart rate of amniocentesis

British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
|October 1, 1976
PubMed

Fetal heart rate monitoring during 107 amniocenteses suggested that acceleration of the fetal heart rate indicated fetal well-being. Eight out of the 19 fetuses who did not show this response (as against 2 out of the 88 others) had a low Apgar score at birth.

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