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ArticleIEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine2020

Subsequent Use of a Pressure Sensor to Record Intra-Abdominal Pressure After Maximum Vaginal Closure Force in a Clinical Trial.

Stefan Niederauer, Brian Cottle, Xiaoming Sheng, James Ashton-Miller, John Delancey, Robert Hitchcock

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Article in IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Stefan Niederauer1Department of BioengineeringThe University of UtahSalt Lake CityUT84112USA.
Brian Cottle1Department of BioengineeringThe University of UtahSalt Lake CityUT84112USA.
Xiaoming Sheng2Department of PediatricsSchool of MedicineThe University of UtahSalt Lake CityUT84112USA.
James Ashton-Miller3Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMI48109USA.
John Delancey4Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMI48109USA.
Robert Hitchcock1Department of BioengineeringThe University of UtahSalt Lake CityUT84112USA.

Funding

The cultural context of postpartum pelvic floor support following vaginal delivery: a comparative ethnographic analysis of Mexican-American and Euro-American womenP01HD080629 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI NYGAARD, INGRID E · 2015 to 2019
$5.9M
NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD080629
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pelvic floor disorders are caused by weakening or damage to the tissues lining the bottom of the abdominal cavity. These disorders affect nearly 1 in every 4 women in the United States and symptoms that drastically diminish a patient's quality of life. Vaginal closure force is a good measure of pelvic health, but current vaginal dynamometers were not designed for the rigors of hospital reprocessing, often failing due to sensor degradation through repeated sterilization processes. In order to obtain measurements of vaginal closure force in a large study, we designed a vaginal dynamometer that utilizes a removable intra-abdominal sensor already in production for the study. The sensor's existing data acquisition system was modified to transmit to a tablet allowing the user to view data in real-time. The new speculum design allowed a single sensor to measure vaginal closure force before being used to collect intra-abdominal pressure data in the same study visit. The measurements taken with the new speculum were similar to measurements taken with a previously reported vaginal dynamometer.

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force measuring speculumPelvic floor disordervaginal closure forcevaginal dynamometer

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PMID31966934
PMCPMC6964966

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