Fetal Electrocardiography (Series in Cardiopulmonary Medicine)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; Imperial College Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781860941719
Subjects: Materno-fetal medicine; Medical / Nursing; Electrocardiography; Medical; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Fetal heart; Cardiology; Diagnostic Imaging; Diagnosis; Diseases; Fetus
First sentence: Einthoven first described the use of a string galvanometer in 1901 to detect the presence of electrical activity in the adult heart and it was only five years later that Cremer (1906) first identified the fetal electrocardiogram from a combination of vaginal and abdominal electrodes.