Expert systems for fetal assessment in labour

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lutomski, Jennifer E ^a   Meaney, Sarah ^a   Greene, Richard A ^a   Ryan, Anthony C ^a   Devane, Declan ^b  

^a Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ACIDEMIA; AMNIOTOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUSCULTATION; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EXPERT SYSTEM; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; INFANTILE SPASM; LABOR; LABOR INDUCTION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UTERUS CONTRACTION;

EID: 84968563617     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010708     Document Type: Article

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