Fetal Monitoring Quiz: Reassuring Or Not?

1. What is the normal baseline fetal heart rate range in beats per minute?

80–100 bpm

110–160 bpm

170–190 bpm

50–80 bpm

2. Which of the following is a reassuring sign on fetal heart rate monitoring?

Absent variability

Recurrent late decelerations

Moderate variability

Severe bradycardia

3. True or False: Fetal tachycardia (>160 bpm) is always reassuring.

True

False

4. Which pattern indicates fetal hypoxia and requires immediate intervention?

Sinusoidal pattern

Accelerations with movement

Mild variable decelerations

Baseline rate 120 bpm

5. What does early deceleration reflect?

Fetal hypoxia

Fetal head compression during contractions

Cord entanglement

Maternal hypotension

6. The FIGO classification categorizes fetal heart rate tracings into how many categories?

2

3

4

5

7. What is the primary purpose of fetal heart rate monitoring during labor?

To predict intellectual disability

To detect fetal hypoxia and guide intervention

To determine gestational age

To measure maternal blood pressure

8. What does a late deceleration indicate?

Umbilical cord compression

Fetal head compression

Placental insufficiency

Fetal movement

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11. True or False: Absent variability combined with late decelerations is non-reassuring.

True

False

12. Which medication is commonly used to treat fetal tachycardia caused by maternal fever?

Terbutaline

Oxytocin

Antipyretics

Magnesium sulfate

13. True or False: Meconium-stained amniotic fluid always indicates fetal distress.

True

False

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Fetal Monitoring Quiz: Reassuring or Not?

1. What is the normal baseline fetal heart rate range in beats per minute?

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2. Which of the following is a reassuring sign on fetal heart rate monitoring?

3. True or False: Fetal tachycardia (>160 bpm) is always reassuring.

4. Which pattern indicates fetal hypoxia and requires immediate intervention?

5. What does early deceleration reflect?

6. The FIGO classification categorizes fetal heart rate tracings into how many categories?

7. What is the primary purpose of fetal heart rate monitoring during labor?

8. What does a late deceleration indicate?

9. Variable decelerations are primarily caused by ____.

10. Fetal heart rate variability is controlled by the ____ nervous system.

11. True or False: Absent variability combined with late decelerations is non-reassuring.

12. Which medication is commonly used to treat fetal tachycardia caused by maternal fever?

13. True or False: Meconium-stained amniotic fluid always indicates fetal distress.

14. A fetal heart rate baseline of 100 bpm with good variability and no decelerations is classified as ____.

15. Accelerations in fetal heart rate are associated with ____ and indicate fetal well-being.