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Fetal heart monitoring in labour: from pinard to artificial intelligence
Author(s) -
Jauniaux E,
Prefumo F
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0528.13844
Subject(s) - fetal heart , medicine , fetal heart rate , obstetrics and gynaecology , fetus , gynecology , pregnancy , heart rate , blood pressure , genetics , biology
E JAUNIAUX PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH, UCL, UK and F PREFUMO, CONSULTANT OBSTETRICIAN, UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA, ITALY. BJOG SCIENTIFIC EDITORS. Evaluating the fetal heart activity during pregnancy and delivery has been the focus of interest for generations of obstetricians and midwives. Jacques Le Jumeau de Kergaradec (1787–1877), a French obstetrician, is credited with the first detailed description, in 1822, of fetal heart sounds (Whitfield, Ulster Med J 1966;35:1:75–82). It took nearly another century for obstetricians to establish a relation between fetal bradycardia and poor fetal outcome.