Telemetric monitoring of fetal blood pressure and heart rate in the freely moving pregnant sheep: A feasibility study

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-54

  Abi Nader, Khalil N ^a,c   Mehta, Vedanta ^a   Shaw, S W Steven ^a,d   Bellamy, Tom ^b   Smith, Neil ^b   Millross, Laura ^b   Laverick, Beth ^a   Filippi, Elisa ^a   Boyd, Michael ^b   Peebles, Donald M ^a   David, Anna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c RIZK HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Open fetal surgery; Pregnancy; Refinement; Sheep; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; FETUS; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS SURGERY; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; FETUS; HEART RATE, FETAL; PREGNANCY; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 78751682429     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2010.010059     Document Type: Article

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