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CURRENT EXTERNAL FETAL HEART RATE MONITORS PROVIDE VALUABLE INFORMATION.

Award Information
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Branch: N/A
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 4834
Amount: $50,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
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Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1986
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
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Po Box 971
Mercer Island, WA 98040
United States
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HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 HOWARD HOCHBERG
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Abstract

CURRENT EXTERNAL FETAL HEART RATE MONITORS PROVIDE VALUABLE INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THEY REQUIRE SKILLED ATTENTION, FREQUENT ADJUSTMENTS, ANDPATIENT RESTRAINT IN ORDER TO OBTAIN CONSISTENT RELIABLE INFORMATION. THIS IS BECAUSE THEDOPPLER SIGNAL CAN ONLY BE CAPTURED FROM A SMALL VOLUME IN THE UTERUS, AND THE FETAL HEART MOVES OUT OF THIS REGION WITH FETAL OR MATERNAL MOTION. OUR AIM IS TO DEVELOP A DOPPLER ULTRASOUND SYSTEM FOR UNATTENDED RELIABLE MONITORINGIRRESPECTIVE OF MATERNAL OR FETAL POSITION OR CHANGE IN POSITION. THIS SYSTEM COULD REDUCE NURSE TRAINING AND LABOR, ENHANCE PATIENT COMFORT AND MOBILITY, PROVIDE TECHNOLOGY FOR HOLTER MONITORING, AND REDUCE INTERNAL MONITORING. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, A SMALL LIGHTWEIGHT ULTRA- SOUND SOURCE WITH 90 DEGREE SOLID ANGLE INSONICATES THE ENTIRE UTERUS FROM THE MIDLINE, AND PERIPHERAL LIGHTWEIGHT SENSORS DETECT ALL RETURNS. IMPROVED ELECTRONICS AND SIGNALEXTRACTION LOGIC ARE REQUIRED AS WELL. BIOMEDICS PRODUCES FETAL MONITORS, IS EXPERIENCED IN ADVANCED DOPPLER SYSTEMS, AND HAS DEVELOPED A VERY WIDE ANGLE TRANSDUCER (PATENTED). PHASE I STUDIES WILL DEMONSTRATE ENGINEERING MODELS OF THE TRANSDUCERS AND ELECTRONICS AND PREPARE FOR CLINICAL TRIALS.IN PHASE II, PRODUCTION-READY MODELS WILL BE TESTED IN THE CLINIC.

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