TITLE:
Development of Portable Monitoring System for Real-Time Detection of Fetal Movement
AUTHORS:
Qifeng Jiang, Bin Gao, Yang Li
KEYWORDS:
Fetal Movement, Monitoring, Electrocardiogram Electrode
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Vol.9 No.8,
August
20,
2018
ABSTRACT: Effective fetal monitoring is an important guarantee
for fetal health and early treatment. Fetal movement is one of critical
indicators of fetal
monitoring, which plays an important role in fetal health. Counting the number
of fetal movement by
pregnant women is a traditional method for long-term monitoring. However, there
are many defects in pregnant women’s feeling count, which cannot meet the
accurate requirements of modern perinatal medicine. With the rapid development
of biological and electronic technology, various sensors are used to probe the
fetal dynamic monitoring, but not on fetal movement. This research proposes a
monitoring method for fetal movement via three electrodes. Briefly: first,
three electrodes are used to extract electrical signals in the abdomen of
pregnant women; second, these signals are amplified and filtered; third, A/D
converter with microprocessor is used to make analog digital conversion, which
can be stored in the SD card under the control of the microprocessor; finally,
the SD card data are processed by computer software and the fetal movement information is
analyzed.