Sentences with phrase «used electronic monitoring»

Consumers who used electronic monitoring methods had lower than average out - of - pocket costs of $ 851 as compared to $ 1,378.

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«Electronic skin,» for example, could use flexible electronics to wirelessly track health statistics, monitoring blood pressure and other vital signs.

Our seminary was, however, featured in a 1965 story in San Francisco's The Monitor about changes granting seminarians more freedom, including dropping the rule of silence between night prayer and the end of breakfast, and allowing the use of electronic equipment — but not TVs!

The company has partnered with PeopleNet, a GPS tracking service, to help it monitor its deliveries and stay in compliance with DOT regulations using electronic logs.

There are two types of fetal monitoring used: Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM) and also Manual Ausmonitoring used: Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM) and also Manual AusMonitoring (EFM) and also Manual Auscultation.

Half of the women at natural parenting advice used the Clear Blue Fertility Monitor, a palm - sized electronic system that monitors both your estrogen and LH levels and provides you an unmistakable display of your personal level of fertility for every day of your cycle.

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Use of inappropriate electronic fetal monitoring perhaps illustrates the extent and pervasiveness of medicalised practice in Western maternity care.

In the United States, Canada, and recently England, major reviews of the evidence have concluded that electronic fetal monitoring should be reserved for high risk pregnancies.18 Use of electronic fetal monitoring has increased worldwide, however, in both low and high risk groups.

* induction of labour (starting your labour artificially) * augmentation of labour (speeding up your labour) * artificial rupture of the membranes (ARM) * using medication for pain relief * electronic fetal monitoring — external CTG or internal fetal scalp * managed third stage of labour (delivering the placenta) * coached pushing * restricted birthing positions * immediate cord clamping * seperation of mother and baby in surgery / recovery

Midwife - Led and homebirth care options do not use electronic foetal monitoring; they use intermittent monitoring.

Intermittent Monitoring is a way of measuring your baby's heart rate using a hand held Doppler (an electronic device used to hear your baby's heartrate, sometimes referred to as a Sonicaid) or by using a Pinard stethoscope (a trumpet shaped device).

You can use intermittent electronic fetal monitoring via external monitoring belts.

In a vaginal breech delivery, electronic fetal monitoring will be used to monitor the baby's heartbeat throughout the course of labor.

During labor and delivery, your baby's heartbeat may also be monitored using electronic fetal monitoring.

There is some evidence that the use of continuous electronic fetal monitoring may lead to increased false positives for fetal hypoxemia and to resulting caesarean sections.21, 22

Their particular concern is the «trends towards excessive, unnecessary, or inappropriate use of obstetric interventions» (p. 2178), including unnecessary ultrasound examinations, routine electronic fetal monitoring, routine episiotomy, high rates of labour induction and augmentation, and non-medically indicated CS.

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The biggest problem being cesarean surgery and operative vaginal births increase when the electronic fetal monitor is used, but the babies don't do any better than babies who had their heart rate measured every 15 minutes with a stethoscope.

One of the more widely used methods of monitoring is electronic fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring.

Combined with the use of electronic travel cards and monitoring of telephone calls and emails, he said most people do not realise how much they are being watched.

Crowley and Canzater identify five critical actions that should be priorities for monitoring HCV: 1) expand and standardize reporting to the CDC, 2) utilize electronic medical records to collect data on HCV cases and the cure cascade, 3) fund epidemiologic research using clinical data sets, 4) integrate improved monitoring of HCV with responses to the opioid epidemic, and 5) establish and monitor HCV elimination plans across major US health systems.

Professor Paul Mitcheson, from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, explains: «Imagine using a drone to wirelessly transmit power to sensors on things such as bridges to monitor their structural integrity.

Or we may have developed miniature electronic circuits capable of monitoring and stimulating neurons, which might be used to augment memory or maintain neural functions during the replacement of neuronal nuclei.

«Limiting the use of electronic fetal monitoring to the very highest risk labours may be justifiable, but even then the balance of benefits and harms is uncertain,» he adds.

They acknowledge that electronic fetal monitoring increases the rate of instrumental delivery (such as use of forceps) and caesarean section, but argue that increased intervention «may not be entirely undesirable, given that appropriately timed intervention is likely to avoid neonatal hypoxia, seizures, and perinatal death.»

Electronic fetal monitoring is often used during labour to detect unborn babies at risk of brain damage (neonatal encephalopathy) from a lack of oxygen (hypoxia).

In the meantime, «pressure continues from those with vested interests to increase the use of electronic monitoring,» he writes.

He believes we should not extend the use of electronic fetal monitoring to women at low risk, nor should we continue to use it as often as we currently do.

But Peter Brocklehurst, Professor of women's health at Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, says «the more we use electronic fetal monitoring, the more harm we do, with little evidence of benefit.»

Routine use of electronic fetal monitoring is not in the best interests of either.»

Obstetrics specialists, Edward Mullins and Christoph Lees, at Imperial College London say that failure to use continuous electronic fetal monitoring «amounts to a misguided blinding of the clinician to the clinical state of the fetus.»

«One day, the self - healing sensor could serve as a platform for biosensors that monitor human health using electronic skin.»

Hospitals are increasingly using electronic - monitoring equipment to track patients, employees and medical devices to prevent them from going the way of the Junior Mint Seinfeld's Kramer infamously dropped into an open surgical patient.

Over the last thirty years, seine fishing in particular has developed rapidly through the use of massive floating objects, natural at first, then more recently fish aggregation devices (abbreviated to FAD) remotely monitored using electronic beacons.

Beyond the more typical uses for weight loss aids, electronic activity monitors may also be useful for patients when they are released from the hospital as a measure of recovery and quality of life.

Once each piece of equipment is being monitored, the millions of electromechanical switches currently in use should be replaced with solid - state, power - electronic circuits, which themselves must be beefed up to handle the highest transmission voltages: 345 kilovolts and beyond.

In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration granted conditional approval of the STAN S31 device for use in addition to the electronic fetal heart rate monitoring.

This trial used patient diaries, electronic medication monitoring and tablet counts to keep adherence to nearly 100 percent.

Participants were monitored using Actigraph, an electronic device

Participants were monitored using Actigraph, an electronic device worn on the wrist that measured the rest / activity cycle of the participants throughout the study, as well as by self report (sleep log).

Since then, biofeedback is often associated with the use of electronic monitoring, such as EMG, EEG, skin conductance and temperature.

You may also use a manual or electronic fertility monitoring method, including temperature charting, to identify signs that can indicate ovulation.

Imagine how much harder Nick's task would have been if he had scant experience using the technology involved in modern travel, such as flight monitors, electronic check - in kiosks, or even escalators.

(6 Traits, Use of new electronic progress monitoring, etc..)

This includes an electronic system that allows the chassis to be calibrated for Eco, Comfort, Normal, Sport and Individual modes, and the system uses sensors and accelerometers to actively monitor and adjust the suspension, which can now independently vary compression and rebound damping.

The Security Operations Systems are used in support of security operations processes including classified document control; monitoring performance of security checks by guard personnel; facility entry control; personnel identification (badging); and monitoring of electronic access (intrusion detection) systems.

The Driver's name and location is collected on the electronic monitoring devices to track driver's hours of service and to ensure the vehicle is not being used for domestic transportation.

With this electronic control system, sensors are used to continuously monitor the speed, direction, yaw velocity and lateral acceleration of the car and enhance traction when accelerating on inconsistent road surface.

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