Telephone transmission of fetal heart rate monitor data. The experience at the University of Connecticut Health Center |
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| Authors: | A M Vintzileos J T Montgomery D J Nochimson W A Campbell P J Weinbaum M P Blanchfield J N Blechner |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA;2. Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Harvard Medical School Center, Boston, MA;3. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA;4. Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA |
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| Abstract: | This report reviews the experience at the University of Connecticut Health Center using the Fetal Assessment Consultative Transmission Service (FACTS) system during a 2 1/2-year period. This system, which permits direct transmission of antepartum and/or intrapartum fetal heart rate tracings via a telephone line, allows the obstetric staffs of smaller community hospitals to obtain an immediate consultation from the University of Connecticut Health Center on a 24 hour per day basis. A total of 511 fetal heart rate tracings were analyzed. Two hundred forty-five were intrapartum, 206 antepartum, and 60 were transmitted for educational purposes. The results indicate an imperative need for such a service from a tertiary care center to improve the quality of regional perinatal care and to determine the future direction of the regional educational program for physicians and nurses. |
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