PMID- 21096913
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110311
LR  - 20200928
IS  - 2375-7477 (Print)
IS  - 2375-7477 (Linking)
VI  - 2010
DP  - 2010
TI  - Prototype of a wearable system for remote fetal monitoring during pregnancy.
PG  - 5815-8
LID - 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627470 [doi]
AB  - Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) monitoring gives important information about the fetus 
      health state during pregnancy. This paper presents a new prototype for remote 
      fetal monitoring. The device will allow to monitor FHR in a domiciliary context 
      and to send fetal ECG traces to a hospital facility, where clinicians can 
      interpret them. In this way the mother could receive prompt feedback about fetal 
      wellbeing. The system is characterized by two units: (i) a wearable unit endowed 
      with textile electrodes for abdominal ECG recordings and with a Field 
      Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board for fetal heart rate (FHR) extraction; (ii) 
      a dock station for the transmission of the data through the telephone line. The 
      system will allow to reduce costs in fetal monitoring, improving the assessment 
      of fetal conditions. The device is actually in development state. In this paper, 
      the most crucial aspects behind its fulfillment are discussed.
FAU - Fanelli, Andrea
AU  - Fanelli A
AD  - Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Bioingegneria, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 
      32, 20133, Italy. andre.fanelli@mail.polimi.it
FAU - Ferrario, Manuela
AU  - Ferrario M
FAU - Piccini, Luca
AU  - Piccini L
FAU - Andreoni, Giuseppe
AU  - Andreoni G
FAU - Matrone, Giulia
AU  - Matrone G
FAU - Magenes, Giovanni
AU  - Magenes G
FAU - Signorini, Maria G
AU  - Signorini MG
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
JT  - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 
      Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International 
      Conference
JID - 101763872
SB  - IM
MH  - *Clothing
MH  - Electrocardiography
MH  - Equipment Design
MH  - Female
MH  - Fetal Monitoring/*instrumentation/methods
MH  - Fetus/physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Telemedicine/*instrumentation/methods
MH  - Ultrasonography, Prenatal
EDAT- 2010/11/26 06:00
MHDA- 2011/03/12 06:00
CRDT- 2010/11/25 06:00
PHST- 2010/11/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/11/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/03/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627470 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010;2010:5815-8. doi: 
      10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627470.