SBIR/STTR Research Award
AN INTRAUTERINE ARRAY FOR THE DETERMINATION OF FETAL HEART RATE
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- PERINATRONICS MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
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- UEI
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- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
THIS STUDY WILL DEVELOP AND CLINICALLY TEST A NOVEL INTRAUTERINE ELECTRODE ARRAY FOR MONITORING FETAL HEART RATE AND HEART RATE VARIABILITY BEFORE AND DURING LABOR. THE DEVEICE IS DESIGNED TO BE INSERTED INTO THE UTERUS AT A TIME WHEN A STANDARD BUT INVASIVE FETAL SCALP ELECTRODE WOULD BE APPLIED. FOLLOWING INSERTION, THE ELECTRODE ARRAY IS SCANNED FOR ELECTRODES WHICH PROVIDE THE BEST FETAL ECG SIGNAL. THE SIGNAL AND THE SIMULTANEOUSLY DERIVED MATERNAL ECG SIGNAL ARE PROCESSED BY EXISTING INSTRUMENTATIONS TO EXTRACT THE FETAL HEART RATE AND VARIABILITY DATA. THE DEVICE IS DESIGNED AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE MORE INVASIVE NATURE OF THE FETAL SCALP ELECTRODE AND THE UNRELIABLE METHODS OF EXTERNAL FETAL MONITORING.
Technology keywords
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