Abstract
2/2003
vol. 11
Value of fetal scalp blood lactate concentration in labour Review
Gin Prakt 2003, 11, 2, 42-44
Online publish date: 2003/04/11
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.
Keywords
fetal blood sampling, fetal lactate
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