The value of antenatal fetal heart rate monitoring was assessed in 301 patients. Tracings from each patient were classified as "reactive" or "non-reactive." Perinatal mortality, fetal distress in labour, caesarean section for fetal distress, and the incidence of low Apgar scores were all significantly increased in the non-reactive group.

This study was undertaken to observe how the EFM alters the neonatal outcome as compared to IA. The present study was conducted in Maheshwari Children‟s Hospital and associated obstetric centers, Bathinda, India. This study included 990 women, pregnant with single live fetus, who were monitored during the labour either by intermittent auscultation (IA) or electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) by ca...

background: fetal electrocardiography is a developing field that provides valuable information on the fetal health during pregnancy. by early diagnosis and treatment of fetal heart problems, more survival chance is given to the infant. objective: here, we extract fetal ecg from maternal abdominal recordings and detect r-peaks in order to recognize fetal heart rate. on the next step, we find a b...

Background. Fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality are significant problems in developing countries; remote maternal-fetal monitoring offers promise in addressing this challenge. The Gary and Mary West Health Institute and the Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud conducted a demonstration project of wirelessly enabled antepartum maternal-fetal monitoring in the state of Yucatán, Mexico, to ass...

Background: Fetal electrocardiography is a developing field that provides valuable information on the fetal health during pregnancy. By early diagnosis and treatment of fetal heart problems, more survival chance is given to the infant.Objective: Here, we extract fetal ECG from maternal abdominal recordings and detect R-peaks in order to recognize fetal heart rate. On the next step, we find a be...

In 2008, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development published guidelines for categorizing fetal heart rate patterns. However, even if universally adopted, they will fail to improve outcomes unless they are integrated into a "bundle" of activities. Bundles reduce risks by assuring that key steps in a process are always taken. A fetal monitoring bundle wou...

A wide range of clinical techniques and investigations is available to healthcare professionals to survey the condition of a fetus in the womb. These may be deployed from early pregnancy to birth. They range from the use of traditional equipment such as a Pinard's stethoscope, which allows direct auscultation of the fetal heartbeat, to ultrasound imaging of the fetus, which gives an ever-increa...

The concept of monitoring fetal body movements has existed for more than a century. Early knowledge of fetal neurologic function was based on maternal perception of aborted fetuses and on systematic studies of newborn infants. Information on how the fetus moves and about quantitative and qualitative movement patterns during gestation has become available in the last few decades. Real-time ultra...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether some offspring of women with diabetes are intrinsically more active than others in utero and whether those who are active are able to normalize their birth weight despite maternal hyperglycemia. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a three-phase study to view the relationship between fetal movements and subsequent birth weight in women with diabetes. Phase I...