Continuous monitoring of cervical dilatation and fetal head station during labor

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-71

  Sharf, Yehuda ^a   Farine, Dan ^b   Batzalel, Moshe ^a   Megel, Yuri ^a   Shenhav, Michael ^c   Jaffa, Ariel ^c,d   Barnea, Ofer ^d  

^a Barnev Ltd   (Israel)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Labor; Monitoring; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; ULTRASONICS;

CERVICAL DILATATION; COMPUTERIZED LABOR MONITOR (CLM); FETAL HEAD STATION; PARTOGRAMS;

PATIENT MONITORING;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY ROOM; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MONITORING; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; LABOR; LABORATORY TEST; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STANDARDIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LABOR PRESENTATION; LABOR STAGE, FIRST; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750493327     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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