New Fetal Heart Monitor Could Give Better Health Picture During Labor

In hopes of giving doctors a better assessment of fetal well-being, University of Florida physicians and a private engineering firm are developing what could be the first commercial monitoring system to noninvasively detect electrical activity in the baby’s heart, producing a fetal electrocardiogram, or EKG, said Dr. Tammy Euliano, a UF associate professor of anesthesiology, and obstetrics and gynecology.
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