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Filter by:Background: Identification and measurement of uterine contractions throughout pregnancy and labor is crucial to the well being of both mother and fetus. Prematurity is one of the major causes for adverse pregnancy outcomes, and clinical decision-making often relies on uterine frequency as recorded by a tocodynamometer, as well as on other methods including sonographic cervical length, pelvic examination. Objective: To show that the use of the EUM in preterm labor is effective in establishing true preterm labor.
Background: Identification and measurement of fetal heart tracings throughout pregnancy and labor is crucial to the well-being of the fetus. Non reassuring fetal heart rate is one of the most common indications for operative vaginal delivery or cesarean section. Therefore, management of labor requires reliable and accurate information about fetal heart rate. In most normal spontaneous labors, fetal heart rate is characterized by the baseline heart rate (from 110 to 160 beats per minute), variability (beat to beat changes) and periodic changes (accelerations or decelerations). In each stage of labor the tracing may have different characteristics, with variable decelerations much more common at the end of the second stage of labor. Objective: To Show non inferiority of the EUM to the fetal doppler and scalp electrode by comparing the reliability and accuracy of the EUM versus fetal doppler compared to scalp electrode in the same patients.
Once in labor, the parturient will be connected to the routine fetal doppler and EUM. When necessary according to clinical indications, the scalp electrode will be connected. Tracing will be recorded simultaneously from all three devices until delivery.