The perinatal nurse explains to a nursing student that the most appropriate patient for an amnioinfusion is a woman who has a fetal heart rate tracing that exhibits which pattern?
A.
Absent variability
B.
Early decelerations
C.
Late decelerations
D.
Variable decelerations
ANS: D
Pregnancy outcome in patients experiencing variable fetal heart rate decelerations caused by cord compression is improved through the use of amnioinfusion, which is the instillation of normal saline or lactated Ringer's solution into the uterine cavity.
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