Published in Obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America
Impaired fetal growth owing to placental insufficiency is a major contributor to adverse perinatal outcomes. No intervention is available that improves outcomes by changing the pathophysiologic process. Monitoring in early-onset fetal growth restriction (FGR) focuses on optimizing the timing of iatrogenic preterm delivery using cardiotocography and...
Cílem této bakalářské práce je vyrobení testeru kardiotokografu a jeho přiblížení k používání ve zdravotnických zařízeních. Jedná se o důležitou součást testování kardiotokografů, protože doposud se testují pouze poklepání prstem na dlaň, která drží sondu kardiotokografu. V této práci je nejdříve sepsána teorie ohledně samotného kardiotokografu. Je...
Published in 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...
Published in Sexual & reproductive healthcare : official journal of the Swedish Association of Midwives
International and national intrapartum fetal monitoring guidelines recommend intermittent auscultation in low-risk women, and admission cardiotocography and continuous cardiotocography in high-risk women. The present study aimed to investigate fetal monitoring practices for low- and high-risk women in two hospitals in Norway, and if practice were a...
Published in 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...
Published in 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...
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...
Published in 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...
Published in 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...
Published in 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...
