The labor and delivery nurse is assigned to four clients in early labor. Which electronic fetal monitoring finding would require immediate intervention?
1. Early decelerations with each contraction
2. Variable decelerations that recover to the baseline
3. Late decelerations with minimal variability
4. Accelerations
3
Explanation: 3. Late decelerations are considered a nonreassuring fetal heart rate (FHR) pattern, and therefore require immediate intervention.
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