Moyo; strap-on Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring in a Rural Setting

Helse Stavanger HF

Status

Completed

Conditions

Fetal Monitoring

Treatments

Device: Hand-held fetoscope

Device: Moyo strap-on

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02790814

Moyo Rural

Details and patient eligibility

About

Annually, an estimated 2.6 million still births occur half of which die during labor and delivery (fresh stillbirths). In addition, around 750,000 newborns die shortly after birth due to intrapartum-related hypoxia or birth asphyxia. Almost 99% of these perinatal deaths take place in low-income countries where the provider/patient ratio is low and fetal monitoring is inadequate. Poor intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring, failure to identify fetal distress, and subsequently intervene, is a common pathway to perinatal deaths in these low-resourced settings. Recently, an innovative fetal heart rate monitoring device, called Moyo, using ultrasound technology, was developed to be strapped on the mother during labour. This project will compare the effectiveness of automatic use of Moyo versus intermittent use of hand-held fetoscope in detection of abnormal fetal heart rate, through a randomized control study, at Haydom Hospital, Tanzania.

Enrollment

2,652 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Women admitted in labor

Exclusion criteria

Women scheduled for elective cesarean section, women with abnormal fetal heart rate on admission, multiples, and critically ill patients with no measurements of fetal heart rate on admission