Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Heart rate monitoring may be a crucial means of detecting rhythm abnormalities in the fetuses of pregnant ...

Doctors now have a suite of advanced tools to detect health problems weeks or months before an infant is born. That early warning gives many families peace of mind. The common ultrasound test, uses ...

But, different types of fetal monitoring can impact comfort and pain management, and can drive medical interventions. These can include increased use of pharmacological pain management due to ...

SAN DIEGO, California — Pregnant women with anti-SSA/Ro autoantibodies at titer levels of less than 1000 ELISA units per mL are at minimal to no risk for fetal atrioventricular (AV) block and may be ...

Fetal heart monitoring is a common practice used by healthcare providers to examine a baby’s heart rate during the latter ...

A new technology for measuring blood oxygen levels of a baby during labor--expected to provide information useful for preventing birth complications--offers no apparent benefit, report researchers in ...

Abstract: A fetal monitor that measures the baby’s vital signs is an important tool to assess fetal wellbeing. The goal of this project is to leverage recent advances in knitted smart fabrics and ...

Electronic fetal monitoring is often used during labour to detect unborn babies at risk of brain damage (neonatal encephalopathy) from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia). In the UK, continuous monitoring is ...

In 1976, a young, first-time mother entered the hospital in spontaneous labor. She had not missed any prenatal visits, those visits had revealed no abnormalities, her pregnancy was full-term, and she ...