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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"fetal heart rate"”.
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Categorizing Fetal Heart Rate Variability with and without Visual Aids
… clinicians and novices to correctly categorize fetal heart rate (FHR) variability with and without the use of exemplars. Clinicians and undergraduate students were asked to inspect FHR images and determine into which of four categories they belonged. Each participant took part in three …
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Comparability of an innovative Doppler ultrasound fetal heart rate monitor to a pinard fetal stethoscope using cardiotocography as a standard to assess the fetal heart rate in singleton pregnancies during labour at Mowbray Maternity Hospital
… often preventable with appropriate maternal and fetal monitoring in labour. However, this remains a challenge in under-resourced settings, due to difficulties that accompany the use of a Pinard Fetal Stethoscope (PFS) which include user-dependence and lack of evidence based standardisation in …
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A randomised comparison of bolus phenylephrine and ephedrine for the management of spinal hypotension in patients with severe preeclampsia and a non-reassuring fetal heart rate trace
… spinal hypotension is associated with increased fetal acidosis compared with phenylephrine. This has not been investigated prospectively in severe preeclampsia. Methods: Patients with severe preeclampsia requiring caesarean delivery for a non- reassuring fetal heart tracing were randomised to …
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i-MOM: Improving Maternal-fetal Outcome Monitoring
… in the United States is use of an electronic fetal monitor (EFM), which is employed to predict and eliminate hypoxic injury during birth. However, since inception of the EFM in the 1960s, incidence of hypoxic injury has remained nearly the same. Riddled with conflicting and confusing data, the …
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Maternal Cardiac Autonomic Function and Fetal Behaviour in Hypertensive and Obese Pregnancies
… is associated with placental insufficiency and fetal growth restriction, whereas obesity in pregnancy is associated with placental inflammation and macrosomia. Fetal growth restriction is associated with an increased risk for language deficits at 2-5 years of age. However, maternal cardiac …
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‘SHE CAME THROUGH ME’: Situating Birth Stories and Women’s Embodied Wisdom in Folkloristics
… experience. Does the woman have an epidural? A fetal heart rate monitor (internal or external)? An IV? What is she feeling? Did she and her partner take childbirth classes (if yes, what style)? The doctor is usually only present for the pushing stage or emergencies. The birth world is full of …
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Prenatal influences on fetal neurodevelopment: Can a person-centered approach help parse the complexity of maternal vulnerability and protective features and detect early alterations to fetal neurodevelopment trajectories related to prenatal distress?
… developmental profile, yet there is little fetal evidence of this putative in utero process. Moreover, the biological transmission for these maternal effects remains uncertain. To advance our understanding of developmental pathways of early transmission of risk we must identify more …
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Algorithm and Hardware Co-optimization for Image Segmentation in Wearable Ultrasound Devices: Continuous Bladder Monitoring
… all-parameters-on-chip application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for accurate bladder region segmentation and urine volume calculation. U-Net is the state-of-the artneural network (NN) for biomedical image segmentation [1]. We trained two binarized models with 4-bits and 6-bits skip …
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Fetal Heart Monitoring, Nursing Surveillance, and Cesarean Birth
… two-fold: (1) to examine nursing assessment of fetal heart rate (FHR) tracing and their interventions (nursing surveillance) in response to identification of an FHR tracing consistent with category II pattern and (2) to identify whether nursing surveillance and frequency of category II patterns …
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Risk Factors associated with high prevalence of stillbirths in Capricorn District, Limpopo Province
… vaginal deliveries, home deliveries, unmonitored fetal heart rate during labour, spontaneous rupture of membranes, Meconium Stained Liquor grade 3, presentations such as shoulder, brow and breech, complications such as cord prolapse, placenta abruption and congenital malformations have a major …
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Source characterization using linear transformations of multichannel biomagnetic recordings
… the brain, via magnetoencephalography (MEG), and heart, via magnetocardiography (MCG). Dense-array biomagnetometers have been recently designed for the investigation of the neurophysiological development of the fetus in utero. Fetal MCG offers accurate recordings of the fetal cardiac activity that …
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The transmission of music into the human uterus and the response to music of the human fetus and neonate
… of a hydrophone through the cervix, next to the fetal head. The investigation was conducted on eight women in early labour. The average residual uterine sound of the eight subjects was measured at 65 dBA (A-weighted) re 20 µ.Pa in a 1 O KHz band, RMS averaged over 32-second records. Above this …
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Maternal and fetal outcomes of induction of labour using oral misoprostol at New Somerset Hospital
… performed in clinical practice. Increasing rates of induction of labour worldwide has led to debate on whether elective induction improves the outcomes or simply leads to increased complications and healthcare costs. Maternal and neonatal complications and increased caesarean section (CS) …
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Algorithms and systems for home telemonitoring in biomedical applications
… telemonitoring application considered is the fetal electrocardiography. Non-invasive fetal electrocardiography is the recording of the fetal heart electrical activity using electrodes placed on the maternal abdomen. It can provide important diagnostic parameters, such as the beat-to-beat heart …
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Frugal Innovation in Healthcare: Aligning Systematic Review, Patterns, and Factors for Diffusion in Developing Economies
… General Electric (GE), an American Conglomerate, invented a pocket sized ultrasound machine (Vscan) at the low cost of $15,000 that is battery operated, easy to use, and has a performance level, which meets the expectations of the proposed market. It was originally developed for China and …