THE RELATION BETWEEN FETAL HEART-RATE ACCELERATIONS AND FETAL MOVEMENTS

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 61  (1) , 16-18
Abstract
Fetal heart rate (FHR) accelerations associated with fetal movements is considered a sign of fetal well-being. Fetal movements as felt by the pregnant woman and visualized by real-time ultrasonography were correlated to FHR accelerations in 52 normal and high-risk pregnant women. All fetal movements felt by the mother or seen in the real-time ultrasonography were associated with large FHR accelerations (> 15 beats/min lasting 15 s) or small accelerations (< 15 beats/min). The large accelerations were associated with 78.6% of fetal movements felt by the mother nd 99.6% of fetal movements seen by real-time ultrasonography. The small accelerations were associated with 52.9% of fetal movements felt by the mother and 82.4% of fetal movements seen by ultrasonography. Mothers felt 75.7% of fetal movements seen by real-time ultrasonography. Fetal movements could be verified by existence of large accelerations on the FHR tracing.

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