LaborPro: a novel and accurate system to monitor progress of labor
SAM Michaelis, H Hopp, Y Palpieli, JW Dudenhausen · Zeitschrift für Geburtshilfe und Neonatologie · 2007 · Heft 12
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LaborPro introduces a novel and objective way to improve labor monitoring and to assess the position of the fetal head and the cervical dilatation by generating computerized data. Miniature position sensors are used to touch anatomical landmarks of the maternal pelvis, the fetal head and margins of the cervix. Data gathered from the sensing of easily identifiable maternal bony landmarks enable the reconstruction of the maternal pelvis on a screen. Using an ultrasound system fetal anatomical landmarks seen on ultrasound, such as BPD, are identified and marked. The derived data allow for the positioning of the fet…