Instantaneous Heart Rate Monitoring in the Neonate

Clinical application of neonatal instantaneous heart rate monitoring (Part one: neonatal instantaneous heart rate response to apnea).

Introduction; Fetal monitoring of instantaneous heart rate (IHR) is one of major advances in recent perinatal medicine. It is widely accepted that changing pattern of fetal IHR associated with uterine contraction will reflect fetal well or ill being. Uterine contraction produces temporary hypoxia to the fetus and apnea does the same to the neorlate. Therefore we analysed changing patterns of ne...

Heart Rate Monitoring

A practical means for unobtrusive and ubiquitous detection and monitoring of heart and respiration activity from a distance could be a powerful tool for health care, emergency, and surveillance applications, yet remains a largely unrealized goal. Without the need for contact or subject preparation (special clothing, attachments, etc.), this could better extend health monitoring to the chronical...

Drug monitoring in the neonate.

Drug monitoring has recently been extended into the neonatal population largely owing to improvements in analytical techniques. This important area of study represents a wide diversity of patients,-from mature infants to low-birth weight infants owing either to premature birth or intrauterine growth retardation. Neonates provide a highly variable population base which undergoes rapid changes in...

Instantaneous monitoring of heart beat dynamics during anesthesia and sedation

The future of fetal heart rate monitoring.

Medical technology is developing at an accelerated rate. Advances and refinement in techniques of electronic fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring are continually being designed and tested. Many of these show real promise for the future. Never-theless, for the next several years there are two major considerations. First, a more universal application of FHR monitoring i.e., to the "normal" patient ä...