If there is any sign of fetal distress, a cesarean section should be performed immediately.

Most c-sections are accounted for by four complications: breech and other abnormal presentation, dystocia,(1) fetal distress,(2) and previous cesarean section.(3) The rise in c-sections has been paralleled by a rise in prevalence of the diagnoses of dystocia and fetal distress.

If the fetal monitor diagnosed fetal distress, doctors corroborated the finding, rather than proceeding immediately to surgery.

In addition, the rate of fetal distress and neonatal asphyxia were higher in the control group, but there was no significant difference between the two groups (p>0.05).

Fetal distress among 150 patients was observed in n=16 (11%) patients, while in n=134 (89%) patients fetal distress did not occurred.

Their gestational age, birth weight, their known risk factors i.e PIH, gestational diabetes, twin pregnancy, maternal infection, and fetal distress were recorded.

Of lawsuits filed against ob.gyns, 22% alleged that physicians did not treat fetal distress in a timely fashion, according to a study by the Doctors Company, a national medical liability insurer.

Fetal distress was noticed in 9 newborns (7.5%) in our study which was more than what Baron [10] observed in her study.

The topics include arterial blood pressure waveform analysis and its applications in assessing vasovagal syncope, heart rate variability analysis for monitoring fetal distress and neonatal critical care, bariatric surgery and its effects on heart rate variability, heart rate variability in congestive heart failure, and heart rate variability and depression.

The fetal monitor readings showed signs of fetal distress, so Dr.

Monitoring the fetal heart rate in labour is an important way of assessing fetal well-being and detecting fetal distress. Assessment of the fetal heart is mainly by intermittent auscultation with a Pinard fetal stethoscope or by continuous electronic cardiotocography.

One study evaluated antepartum predictors of fetal distress requiring a cesarean delivery among 2134 pregnant women with gestational diabetes.

The study found no significant differences by race or ethnicity in a number of other factors including proteinuria, eclampsia, intrauterine fetal distress, intrauterine growth retardation, abruption, and recurrent preeclampsia, they said.

(In developed nations the rupture rate was 0.18 percent.) By comparison, the incidence of other childbirth emergencies, such as prolapsed cord, placental separation, or sudden fetal distress is 1-3 percent.

Important proof often involves showing that the infant suffered a period of oxygen deprivation resulting in fetal distress. Fetal distress has been called "a precarious fetal condition that, if allowed to persist, may lead to permanent damage or to perinatal death."(1)