ArticleWomen's health (London, England)
Women's experience of wearing a portable fetal-electrocardiogram device to monitor small-for-gestational age fetus in their home environment.
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- Evaluation of an external fetal electrocardiogram monitoring system: a randomized controlled trial.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2020Trial
- Bringing diagnostic home: models, challenges and enablers of home-based examinations imaging/graph services - a scoping review.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Antenatal Noninvasive Fetal Electrocardiography: A Literature Review.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2024Review
- Pregnancy in the time of COVID-19: towards Fetal monitoring 4.0.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Review
- Exploring the experiences of pregnant women in the U.S. during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.The Journal of social issues · 2022Article
- Women's experiences of monitoring the small-for-gestational age fetus by ultrasound: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2019Article
- A novel multi-step adaptive Kalman filtering method based on dynamic noise estimation for FECG extraction.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the acceptability, to women, of wearing a portable fetal electrocardiogram recording device at different stages of pregnancy and to gain insight into their experience of its use for long-periods of monitoring of small-for-gestational fetuses in the home environment.
methodsA qualitative study using both a questionnaire and focus group involving women with singleton pregnancy >24 weeks gestation, no evidence of fetal malformation and an estimated fetal weight below 10th gestational centile on ultrasound scan. Fetal heart rate recordings were collected for up to 20 h.
resultsIn total, 59 questionnaires were completed; 35 after wearing the monitor for the first time and an additional 24 from the women who wore the device for a second time. Six women participated in the focus group; the principal theme identified related to the practicality of the fetal electrocardiogram device. Other themes identified were the discomfort that resulted from wearing the monitor and the reassurance provided in knowing that the baby's heart rate was being monitored.
conclusionLong-term ambulatory fetal electrocardiogram monitoring is an acceptable method of monitoring small-for-gestational fetuses. Overall, women concluded that benefits of wearing the device outweighed any discomfort it caused.
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