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a client who is having her labor induced with oxytocin has internal feta monitoring in place. Her contractions are occurring every 2 mins, are lasting 70 seconds and are reaching 65 mm HG on an intrauterine pressure catheter. The baseline fetal heart rate is 130 to 140 beats/min with variability of about 15 beats/min. The nurse notices that with the past two contractions the fetal heart rate began to drop during the peak of the contration to 110 beat/min where it remained for about 40 seconds before returning to baseline. What type of pattern is this?-bradycardia-late decelerations-early decelerations-variable decelerations
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