conclusions sexual activity in last week of pregnancy might be associated with the onset of labor. therefore, in the absence of complications in term pregnancy, sexual activity can be considered as a natural way to prevent post term pregnancy. background pregnancy is one of the most critical periods in women's lives. sexual relationships change in this period. monitoring of uterine contractions...

OBJECTIVE Tocodynamometry (Toco; strain gauge technology) provides contraction frequency and approximate duration of labor contractions but suffers frequent signal dropout, necessitating repositioning by a nurse, and may fail in obese patients. The alternative invasive intrauterine pressure catheter (IUPC) is more reliable and adds contraction pressure information but requires ruptured membrane...

Aiming at the enhancement of monitoring system for pregnant patients, an appropriate device is needed to monitor the maternal health during labour. A new method for non-invasive monitoring of respiration and uterine contraction activity of pregnant woman is described in this paper. A prolonged inspiration or shortness of breath occurs during initiation of labour associated with elevated uterine...

INTRODUCTION In normal pregnancy the human uterus remains almost inactive until the 40th week of gestation, when its activity becomes very intensive and coordinated. The recording of uterine contractions is routinely done by external monitoring of the strength of contractions by tocodynamometry or more accurately by tocographic monitoring of intrauterine pressure rises in the amniotic fluid. It...

Completion of uterine curettage may be challenging following uterine perforation even under sonographic and laparoscopic monitoring. This report illustrates the use of a flexible intubating stylet as a guide to place the suction curette into the uterine cavity when sonography and laparoscopy alone are not successful. Use of a malleable instrument such as an intubating stylet as a guide should b...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Koala air-charged coupled catheter (Clinical Innovations, Inc., Murray, Utah) for monitoring intrauterine pressure (IUP) during active labor with an electronic pressure transducer-tip catheter, Intran Plus (Utah Medical Products, Midvale, Utah). STUDY DESIGN Simultaneous recordings with Koala and Intran catheters bound together at their tips were made in 18 term patie...

The monitoring of uterine activity is of importance in prenatal medicine for the surveillance of the course of the pregnancy, and for assessing the condition of the fetus. The relevant information about uterine activity can be derived from mechanical effects, such as deformation, tension in the abdominal wall, changes in intrauterine pressure, and from electrical phenomena produced by the uteru...

Introduction; Fetal monitoring of instantaneous heart rate (IHR) is one of major advances in recent perinatal medicine. It is widely accepted that changing pattern of fetal IHR associated with uterine contraction will reflect fetal well or ill being. Uterine contraction produces temporary hypoxia to the fetus and apnea does the same to the neorlate. Therefore we analysed changing patterns of ne...