fetoscope


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a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat

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As the clock was ticking and the examiner's return was becoming progressively imminent, I was getting more nervous, knowing that she would ask me to use the fetoscope and could fail me for not being conversant with this elementary procedure.
Instead, he eased the uterus out of her body and inserted the fetoscope, and then, through another slit, surgical tools.
Ministry of Health speech to launch new fetoscope at National Women's Health.
Comparison between Fetal Endoscopic Tracheal Occlusion using a 1.0-mm fetoscope and prenatal expectant management in severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Fetal movement was present, and the fetal heart rate was assessed with a fetoscope and found to be at a baseline of 130 with good variation.
In the studies comparing IA with EFM, most used a fetoscope or Doppler device with a 1:1 nurse-to-fetus ratio for evaluating the fetal heart characteristics.
After a demonstration by the instructor, the group breaks into small sections, who alternate palpating for position, listening for fetal heart tones with a fetoscope, and massaging the woman's feet and/or scalp and neck, if she desires.
Heather had several prenatal visits with the midwife, during which the midwife monitored the baby's heartbeat using both a specially designed stethoscope known as a "fetoscope," and also a "Doppler." The midwife disclosed that the Department of Professional Regulation of Illinois (Department) had issued a cease and desist order prohibiting her from engaging in lay midwifery.
(30) Antenatal diagnosis of human hemoglobin disorders cannot be made by amniocentesis; but development of procedures utilizing ultrasound and, more recently, the amnioscope and fetoscope to view the fetus in the womb, have resulted in the detection of sickle cell and Cooley's anemia (thalassemia).
He had a new diagnostic tool, the fetoscope, but did not know how often its use might cause miscarriages.
Before the electronic revolution, physicians listened to the fetal heart with an instrument called a fetoscope. This procedure was called auscultation.
In these cases, a fetoscope guided by USG is inserted in the abdomen to identify both the umbilical cords.
We could listen to the fetal heart rate using the fetoscope, but access to the fetus for its early developmental analysis was otherwise off-limits; its growth and development were assumed as part of maternal-focused obstetric care.
The kit contained blood pressure apparatus, fetoscope, stethoscope, adult and infant weighing machines, DDKs, and a curtain, mat and measuring tape.