title: The future of fetal monitoring.
abstract: Fetal heart rate monitoring is the most common obstetric procedure, and yet it remains a frustrating technology, plagued by false-positive results and miscommunication between providers. A new generation of invasive and noninvasive monitoring technologies is under development and entering the clinic, including the STAN monitor (Neoventa Medical, Mölndal, Sweden), which improves monitoring accuracy by incorporating a proxy of the fetal ST-segment. New noninvasive fetal electrocardiography and uterine contraction monitoring technologies will bring novel metrics and potentially improved safety to obstetrics in coming years.
authors.affiliation: Boston Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Brookline, MA.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: J
keywords: Fetal ECG; Fetal monitoring; Safety; Uterine EMG