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Intraoperative Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) Monitoring: a Feasibility Study

NCT02950896 · Status: TERMINATED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 4

Last updated 2019-05-10

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Summary

Fetal heart rate \[FHR\] monitoring is used widely to assess the well-being of the baby in the delivery period. If it is determined that an urgent cesarean delivery is required because of fetal distress, FHR is discontinued once the mother is in the operating room in order to allow for surgical site preparation. From this point, there is no real-time monitoring that permits assessment of the well-being of the infant. The investigators are evaluating the feasibility of intraoperative FHR monitoring using fetal ECG placed on the mother's upper abdominal wall and the standard acoustic device routinely used. The investigators will compare these to the traditional well-being tests: umbilical arterial blood gas and Apgar score.

The first 15 subjects will be recruited from pregnant women who have scheduled induction of labor. The subsequent 40 subjects will be recruited from pregnant women who have scheduled cesarean sections.

Conditions

  • Fetal Monitoring
  • Labor, Obstetric

Interventions

OTHER

observational fetal heart rate monitoring

Patients will have fetal heart rate monitoring

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Heather McKenzie, MD · Washington University School of Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-31
Primary Completion
2017-10-29
Completion
2017-10-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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