title: The need for a new outlook on labor monitoring.
abstract: Fetal heart rate monitors, including the newer pulse-oximetry and STAN monitors, are designed to detect fetal distress that affects less than 1% of women in labor. Non-progressive labor is a much more common disorder than fetal distress, with approximately 50% of women in labor requiring oxytocin. Current technology assessing labor progress is subjective and inaccurate. There is a need for objective and accurate technology to measure labor progress and the effect it may have on managing labor and, specifically, non-progressive labor.
authors.affiliation: Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. dfarine@mtsinai.on.ca
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farine
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shenhav
authors.forename: Ofer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barnea
authors.forename: Ariel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jaffa
authors.forename: Harold E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005316:Fetal Distress / Q000503:physiopathology; D005323:Fetal Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006340:Heart Rate, Fetal / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010092:Oximetry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D011247:Pregnancy