Tarvonen, Mikko Hovi, Petteri Sainio, Susanna Vuorela, Piia Andersson, Sture Teramo, Kari
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European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology
Recent studies suggest that intrapartum ZigZag pattern of fetal heart rate (FHR) is significantly associated with cord blood acidaemia and neonatal complications. For the clinical significance of this pattern, it is mandatory that ZigZag episodes in cardiotocographic (CTG) recording are correctly identified. The aim of the present study was to exam...
Anwari, Lida
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Radiology Case Reports
This clinical study reports a case of rectus sheath hematoma in a 32-year-old woman with a pregnancy at 33 weeks of gestation, who developed acute right-sided abdominal pain following anticoagulant administration for pulmonary embolism. The rectus sheath hematoma was identified during an emergency cesarean section initiated due to severe fetal brad...
Knupp, Rubymel Jijón Andrews, William W Tita, Alan T N
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Best practice & research. Clinical obstetrics & gynaecology
Continuous electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) was first introduced commercially over 50 years ago with the hope of improving perinatal outcomes during labor. However, despite the increased use of EFM, definitive improvements in perinatal outcomes have not been demonstrated. Variance in tracing interpretation and intervention has led to increased rat...
Daglar, Gulseren Demirel, Gulbahtiyar Guler, Handan Yurtsal, Burcu
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The journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine, the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies, the International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians
Purpose: The aim of this study is to train midwifery students on electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) within the scope of the course and then to evaluate their pre- and post-course EFM knowledge and EFM interpreting skills.Methods: This interventional study was carried out at the Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences. The study populatio...
Shakouri, Farzaneh Iorizzo, Linda Edwards, Hellen Mc Kinnon Vinter, Christina Anne Kristensen, Karl Isberg, Per-Erik Wiberg, Nana
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundIt is discussed whether fetal scalp stimulation (FSS) test is a reliable complimentary tool to cardiotocography (CTG) to assess fetal wellbeing during labor. The test is based on the assumption that a well-oxygenated fetus, in contrast to the depressed fetus, will respond to a certain stimulus. The aim of this study was to investigate the...
Romagnoli, Sofia Sbrollini, Agnese Burattini, Luca Marcantoni, Ilaria Morettini, Micaela Burattini, Laura
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Data in Brief
The proposed dataset provides annotations for the 552 cardiotocographic (CTG) recordings included in the publicly available “CTU-CHB intra-partum CTG database” from Physionet ( https://physionet.org/content/ctu-uhb-ctgdb/1.0.0/ ). Each CTG recording is composed by two simultaneously acquired signals: i) the fetal heart rate (FHR) and ii) the matern...
Signorini, Maria G. Pini, Nicolò Malovini, Alberto Bellazzi, Riccardo Magenes, Giovanni
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Data in Brief
The presented collection of data comprises of a set of 12 linear and nonlinear indices computed at different time scales and extracted from Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) traces acquired through Hewlett Packard CTG fetal monitors (series 1351A), connected to a PC. The sampling frequency of the recorded FHR signal is equal 2 Hz. The recorded populations con...
Tarvonen, Mikko Sainio, Susanna Hämäläinen, Esa Hiilesmaa, Vilho Andersson, Sture Teramo, Kari
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Neonatology
Background: While late decelerations and major bradycardia episodes in intrapartum cardiotocography (CTG) recordings are known to correlate with fetal distress,little is known of the importance of the saltatory pattern. Objective: The aim of the study was to examine whether the fetal heart rate (FHR) saltatory pattern in intrapartum CTG registratio...
Kiely, Daniel J. Oppenheimer, Lawrence W. Dornan, James C.
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundMaternal heart rate artefact is a signal processing error whereby the fetal heart rate is masked by the maternal pulse, potentially leading to danger by failure to recognize an abnormal fetal heart rate or a pre-existing fetal death. Maternal heart rate artefact may be exacerbated by autocorrelation algorithms in modern fetal monitors due...
Feng, Guanchao Quirk, J. Gerald Djurić, Petar M.
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... International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing. International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing
During labor, fetal heart rate (FHR) and uterine activity (UA) are continuously monitored with Cardiotocography (CTG). The FHR and UA signals are visually inspected by obstetricians to assess the fetal well-being. However, due to the subjectivity of the visual inspection, the evaluations of CTG recordings performed by obstetricians have high inter-...
