High resolution visualization of fetal cardiac development, especially during second trimester provides dramatic insights on heart muscle fiber orientation. The fetal heart's internal map allows us to ...

Doctors differ greatly in how they interpret tracings. In a study in which four obstetricians examined 50 fetal heart rate tracings, they agreed in 22 percent of the cases. Two months later, the same ...

Since the 1970s, electronic fetal monitoring has been the go-to technology in perinatal obstetrics for the detection of fetal distress during labor. Although the technology has changed slightly in the ...

The sudden change in the fetal heart tracing and the severe abdominal pain, accompanied by frequent contractions in the setting of preeclampsia, make placental abruption the likely diagnosis. Most ...

OSF HealthCare is conducting continuous virtual monitoring of moms and fetuses from the beginning of labor through delivery. OSF HealthCare has launched an initiative to improve monitoring of labor ...

Déjà vu all over again? Alere Health, formerly known as Inverness Medical Innovations inked a distribution deal with a wireless remote fetal monitoring company. In March Alere signed on to promote ...