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What is the Auscultated Acceleration Test?

With thanks to Maryann Long, CNM, PhD, for bringing Lisa Paine’s work to my attention. I’m always fascinated about how some new ideas “stick” and are incorporated into practice, while others fall by the wayside. Despite having read widely about fetal heart rate monitoring options for the past decade, the Auscultated Acceleration Test never crossed my path. This simple approach seems to have fallen by the wayside. I want to […]

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Can you assess variability with intermittent auscultation?

Let me begin, like the good researcher I am, by defining some terms. Intermittent auscultation is a type of fetal heart rate monitoring. A device of some sort is used to make it easy to hear the fetal heart rate, so the person listening (auscultating) can assess certain features of the heart rate, to determine whether it is considered normal or not. Typically, a handheld Doppler device is used. This […]

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