ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Comprehensive pregnancy monitoring with a network of wireless, soft, and flexible sensors in high- and low-resource health settings.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05778435 (The Effect Of The Wireless Fetal Monitoring Used During Birth On The Women's Comfort, Labour Pain And Birth Satisfaction), which is not on this map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Effect Of The Wireless Fetal Monitoring Used During Birth On The Women's Comfort, Labour Pain And Birth Satisfaction
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.
- Wearable Sensors for the Monitoring of Maternal Health-A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
- The Effect of the Wireless Fetal Monitoring Used During Birth on the Women's Comfort, Labor Pain, and Birth Satisfaction.The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research · 2026Trial
- A new wearable diagnostic home sleep testing platform: comparison with available systems and benefits of multinight assessments.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2023Trial
- Photoacoustic and ultrasound Imaging of placental functions in gestational diabetes: From diagnosis to precision interventions.Photoacoustics · 2026Review
- Home Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring in Pregnancy: Patient Experience and Acceptance in the Era of Digital Prenatal Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Fetal monitoring for high-risk pregnancies using a wearable ultrasound patch.Nature biotechnology · 2026Article
- Soft, Flexible, and Stretchable Platforms for Tissue-Interfaced Bioelectronics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Wearable Blood Pressure Monitoring in Resource-Limited Settings: A Co-Design of Sensors, Model, and Deployment.Nano-micro letters · 2026Review
- Acceptability of Modified Early Obstetric Warning Systems Among Midwives in Malawi; An Exploratory Qualitative Study.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Lighting the Path to Precision Healthcare: Advances and Applications of Wearable Photonic Sensors.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Rising to the challenge: lessons learnt from the Global Women's Research Society (GLOW) conference for women's and newborn health in the context of global crises.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Article
- Maternal mortality ratios in Southeast Asia (1990-2021): trends, disparities, and projections through 2050 based on the global burden of disease 2021, with reference to SDG 3.1.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Fetal monitoring using a wearable ultrasound patch for high-risk pregnancies.Research square · 2025Article
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- Advances in biomonitoring technologies for women's health.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Closing the loop: autonomous intelligent control for hypoxia pre-acclimatization and high-altitude health management.National science review · 2025Review
- Accuracy of the smartphone blood pressure measurement solution OptiBP to track blood pressure changes in pregnant women.Journal of hypertension · 2025Article
- Obstetrics and gynecology devices designed for low- and middle-income countries: A narrative review.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025Review
- Effects of maternal positions in electronic fetal monitoring: a randomised controlled trial.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Wearable Sensors, Data Processing, and Artificial Intelligence in Pregnancy Monitoring: A Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Vital signs monitoring is a fundamental component of ensuring the health and safety of women and newborns during pregnancy, labor, and childbirth. This monitoring is often the first step in early detection of pregnancy abnormalities, providing an opportunity for prompt, effective intervention to prevent maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Contemporary pregnancy monitoring systems require numerous devices wired to large base units; at least five separate devices with distinct user interfaces are commonly used to detect uterine contractility, maternal blood oxygenation, temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and fetal heart rate. Current monitoring technologies are expensive and complex with implementation challenges in low-resource settings where maternal morbidity and mortality is the greatest. We present an integrated monitoring platform leveraging advanced flexible electronics, wireless connectivity, and compatibility with a wide range of low-cost mobile devices. Three flexible, soft, and low-profile sensors offer comprehensive vital signs monitoring for both women and fetuses with time-synchronized operation, including advanced parameters such as continuous cuffless blood pressure, electrohysterography-derived uterine monitoring, and automated body position classification. Successful field trials of pregnant women between 25 and 41 wk of gestation in both high-resource settings (
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