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ARPA-H is investing in tech to give clinicians a clearer picture in fetal monitoring
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Federal News Network
We essentially, as a medical community, adopted this fetal monitoring technology, which are these two little kind of hockey pucks that sit on a mom’s belly when she’s in labor.
Kate Arnold, So when we look at our rising C-sections, a lot of it is because we have poor data.
And really the dream is having a monitor that’s accurate, that’s comfortable, that’s non-invasive, where moms could actually walk around during labor.
So when we think about adding new sensors, some of the sensors we’re adding are like fetal EEG or placental oxygenation or fetal oxygenation.
Kate Arnold, I think OB/GYNs have a very love-hate relationship with fetal heart rate tracings.