Sentences with phrase «monitor strips»

This is because hospitals will keep the fetal monitor strips somewhere separate from the medical record.

I keep looking at those baby monitor strips with the heart beat and the contractions.

Many times, there are cases that involve the use of fetal monitor strips.

Legally, the doctor and / or nurses are tasked with observing fetal monitoring strips for signs of fetal distress (such as a decreased heart beat), and acting quickly to mitigate any preventable harm to the mother and child.

Depending on the unit, HUCs might carry out other duties such as observing fetal monitor strips on a labor and delivery unit.

When using fetal monitor strips, the baby is still in utero of being delivered, and there is a strap either around the outside of the mother's belly, or there is an internal strip called a TOCO, which monitors how the baby is doing in relation to the labor.

In a birth - injury case, for instance, one of the most crucial documents is the fetal - monitoring strip, but it won't be in your file unless you ask for it.

This is because when an attorney or medical personnel goes back to the records, they will look at the fetal monitoring strips, delivery, and techniques recorded that the doctor used to remove the baby.

It is very important that a person looks at these records, and the attorney looks at the fetal monitor strips to see what was going on during the delivery to see if there was a possibility of an anoxic birth.

The defendant obstetrician viewed the fetal monitor strips and indicated that everything looked good.

Plaintiff's expert has reviewed the fetal monitor strips and opined that starting at approximately 12:30 p.m. there were worrisome changes on the monitor which continued throughout the day and warranted interventions and / or delivery by cesarean section to prevent injury to the baby.

The plaintiffs were prepared to present expert testimony that the defendant nurse was negligent in failing to provide intrauterine resuscitative measures to assist the baby when the monitor strips became worrisome.

The plaintiffs» expert was further expected to testify that the defendant obstetrician was negligent in failing to perform a cesarean section when the monitor strips became worrisome around 2:00 p.m..

We do a complete and thorough review and analyzation of specific areas such as electronic fetal monitor strips, tests performed (or not performed) on the mother and her child, and the labor and delivery flow.