A comparison between maternal, tocodynamometric, and real-time ultrasonographic assessments of fetal movement.
Fetal movements were simultaneously studied with maternal perception, tocodynamometry, and real-time ultrasonography. A comparison between these three modalities demonstrated good agreement. The percentage of agreement improved with increasing duration of fetal movements. For fetal movements lasting longer than 3 seconds, the agreement between ultrasonography and tocodynamometry was 95.6%. These findings suggest that tocodynamometry is a sensitive method for studying fetal movements.
D005260:Female; D005323:Fetal Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D010465:Perception; D011247:Pregnancy; D014463:Ultrasonography