ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2024
Detection of time of birth and cord clamping using thermal video in the delivery room.
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- Consent-driven, semi-automated data collection during birth and newborn resuscitation: Insights from the NewbornTime study.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Impact of Heart Rate Monitoring Using Dry-Electrode ECG Immediately After Birth on Time to Start Ventilation: A Randomized Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Newborn resuscitation algorithms emphasize that resuscitation is time-critical, and all algorithm steps are related to the time of birth. Infrared thermal video has the potential to capture events in the delivery room, such as birth, cord clamping, and resuscitative interventions, while upholding the privacy of patients and healthcare providers. Objectives: The objectives of this concept study were to (i) investigate the technical feasibility of using thermal video in the delivery room to detect birth and cord clamping, and (ii) evaluate the accuracy of manual real-time registrations of the time of birth and cord clamping by comparing it with the accuracy of registrations abstracted from thermal videos. Methods: An observational study with data collected at Stavanger University Hospital, Norway, from September 2022 to August 2023. The time of birth and cord clamping were manually registered on a portable tablet by healthcare providers. Thermal cameras were placed in the delivery rooms and operating theatre to capture births. Videos were retrospectively reviewed to determine the time of birth and cord clamping. Results: Participation consent was obtained from 306 mothers, of which 195 births occurred in delivery rooms or an operating theatre with a thermal camera installed. We excluded 12 videos in which no births occurred. Births were detectable in all 183 (100%) thermal videos evaluated. There was a median (quartiles) of 1.8 (0.7, 5.4) s deviation in the manual registrations of the times of births relative to those abstracted from thermal videos. Cord clamping was detectable in 173 of the 183 (95%) thermal videos, with a median of 18.3 (3.3, 108) s deviation in the manual registrations of the times of cord clampings relative to those abstracted from thermal videos. Conclusion: Recognizing the time of birth and cord clamping from thermal videos is technically feasible and provides a method for determining when resuscitative events occur.
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