Future perspectives in intrapartum fetal surveillance

LD Devoe - Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Standard electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) is a limited prognostic tool.•Adjunctive
assessment tools have not consistently improved EFM performance.•Future surveillance
systems are possible with today's technologies.•Such systems will need to blend the existing
EFM systems with intelligent computers.•Industry must be willing to take on the risk of
developing such novel systems.Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) has aided intrapartum fetal
surveillance for more than four decades. In spite of numerous trials comparing EFM with …