Value of fetal scalp blood lactate concentration in labour Review

Andrzej Szałkowski; Jerzy Stelmachów

ISSN: 1231-6407

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2/2003
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Value of fetal scalp blood lactate concentration in labour Review

Andrzej Szałkowski

,

Jerzy Stelmachów

Gin Prakt 2003, 11, 2, 42-44

Online publish date: 2003/04/11

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The use of blood sampling has been advocated widely to improve the specificity of fetal heart rate monitoring, but it remains a clinically unpopular procedure. Lactate is a metabolite that can safely and easily be determined in fetal scalp blood using new microvolume lactate meters. However, new lactate analysing methods need their own reference values.

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Value of fetal scalp blood lactate concentration in labour Review

Andrzej Szałkowski , Jerzy Stelmachów

fetal blood sampling, fetal lactate

Andrzej Szałkowski

,

Jerzy Stelmachów