It’s normal for women to have some uterine contractions throughout pregnancy. Often, a woman is unaware of these contractions, but at other times the contractions can be painful and regular and seem ...

January 29, 2010 — Monitoring uterine contractions with internal tocodynamometry during induced labor should not be done on a routine basis, which contradicts professional society recommendations, ...

An inexpensive, disposable external medical device can now be bought and used by clinicians to monitor contractions in pregnant women. The tocodynamometer, marketed as Koala Toco, was approved in May ...

In the hospital, keeping tabs on labor contractions usually requires a woman to stay strapped in bed with a bulky belt. Now, a team at Drexel University is combining engineering and medicine with ...

The labor monitor identifies contraction efficiency, distinguishes preterm from false labor, and analyzes the urgency of a cesarean section. A device that analyzes uterine contractions might not take ...

When a woman in labor arrives at a hospital, one of the first things caregivers do is hook her up to a tocodynamometer, a device that monitors the timing and severity of uterine contractions, by ...

For 27-year-old Kelly Densmore, the last month of pregnancy with her first child was filled with anxiety. She was never sure whether she was having a contraction or not, and once she ended up at the ...

Whether it’s your first pregnancy or your 20th, the third trimester is a time of watchful waiting and anticipation. Anything that can provide accurate and helpful information about pregnancy-specific ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received three grants totaling more than $6.8 million to advance research on a novel imaging system to monitor uterine ...