widespread use of efm has provided us with an immense amount of knowledge about fetal physiology , but it is critically important for the practising obstetrician to understand that , in the low-risk patient , efm is not more effective than ia in preventing death from asphyxia , that efm does protect against asphyxial seizures , but that widespread use of the technique has not been associated with a significant reduction in the population of permanently handicapped infants .
C0011065
death
C0004044
asphyxial