Cardiotocography (CTG) is a simultaneous recording of Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) and Uterine Contractions (UC). It is one of the most common diagnostic techniques to evaluate maternal and fetal well-being during pregnancy and before delivery. By observing the Cardiotocography trace patterns doctors can understand the state of the fetus. There are several signal processing and computer programming b...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of admission cardiotocography and Doppler auscultation of the fetal heart on neonatal outcome and levels of obstetric intervention in a low risk obstetric population. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Obstetric unit of teaching hospital PARTICIPANTS Pregnant women who had no obstetric complications that warranted continuous monitoring of fetal hea...

the umbilical vein (uv) has a non pulsating and even pattern in normal fetuses. pulsation of uv has been described in severely growth restricted fetuses with chronic hypoxia. we wanted to see whether uv pulsations could also be seen in fetuses with heart deceleration during labor, as an adjunctive measure to assess the intra partum hypoxia. in a prospective study doppler examination was perform...

Cardiotocography is one of the most widely used technique for recording changes in fetal heart rate (FHR) and uterine contractions. Assessing cardiotocography is crucial in that it leads to identifying fetuses which suffer from lack of oxygen, i.e. hypoxia. This situation is defined as fetal distress and requires fetal intervention in order to prevent fetus death or other neurological disease c...

Cardiotocography (CTG) records fetal heart rate (FHR) and uterine contractions (UC) simultaneously. Cardiotocography trace patterns help doctors to understand the state of the fetus. Even after the introduction of cardiotocograph, the capacity to predict is still inaccurate. This paper evaluates some commonly used classification methods using WEKA. Precision, Recall, F-Measrue and ROC curve hav...

Telemetry and conventional cardiotocography were compared by monitoring the labor of 60 patients with an uneventful pregnancy and delivery in the 38th-42nd week of pregnancy. 31 patients were monitored by telemetry and 29 by cardiotocography. The patients were matched for age (+/- 5 years), duration of pregnancy (+/- 7 days) and parity (I or II). The husband attended labor and delivery in 42% o...

BACKGROUND Acoustic stimulation of the fetus has been suggested to improve the efficiency of antepartum fetal heart rate testing. OBJECTIVES The objective of this review was to assess the merits or adverse effects of the use of fetal vibroacoustic stimulation in conjunction with tests of fetal wellbeing. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group trials register...