Clinical trials: Fetal Heart Rate Abnormalities
Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, Apnea of Newborn
Advanced Wireless Sensors for Neonatal Care in the Delivery Room
The goals of this observational study is to assess whether a new advanced wireless skin sensor vital sign monitoring system can effectively monitor the vital signs of healthy newborn infants (≥ 35 weeks gestational age).
- Conditions
- Sudden Unexplained Infant Death, Apnea of Newborn, Newborn Morbidity, Newborn Asphyxia
- Trial name
- AWARD (NCT06693817)
- Testing
- Wireless skin sensors vital sign monitoring system, Wired vital sign monitoring system
- Where
- 5 sites in Brazil, Canada and 2 more
- Volunteers
- 600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Guilherme Sant'Anna, MD
Fetal Distress With Antenatal Problem, Fetal Growth Retardation
Validation of Sensors for Long-term Non-Invasive Fetal Monitoring
A multidisciplinary team of a doctor and engineers have developed a new sensor that will be able to detect mothers' and babies' heartbeat and babies movements in late pregnancy.
- Trial name
- NCT06952777
- Testing
- Non-adhesive capacitively-coupled sensors
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 69 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Manchester
Fetal Arrhythmia, Abnormality in Fetal Heart Rate or Rhythm
Fetal and Neonatal Magnetophysiology
Fetal research and clinical practice has been hampered by a lack of suitable investigational techniques. Currently, ultrasound is the only widely used method of studying fetal anatomy and physiology, but it has significant…
- Conditions
- Fetal Arrhythmia, Abnormality in Fetal Heart Rate or Rhythm, Long QT Syndrome
- Trial name
- NCT01903564
- Testing
- magnetocardiography, postnatal ECG, fetal echocardiography
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 39 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fetal Growth Retardation
Fetal Heart Rate Variability
Need statement a new way to distinguish between a healthy small fetus and a small fetus suffering from deprivation of nutrition and oxygen to prevent unnecessary induction of preterm birth and improve neonatal outcome.
- Trial name
- NCT04323865
- Testing
- fetal heart rate variability
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Fetal Growth Retardation
Fetal Heart Rate Variability and Fetal Growth Restriction
There is growing evidence in the field of fetal heart rate variability revealing the fetal neurological state. Furthermore, fetal heart rate variability has shown potential as fetal surveillance in fetal growth restriction.
- Trial name
- (FGR) (NCT04288037)
- Testing
- fetal heart rate variability
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Maternal Hypotension, Labor Epidural Analgesia
Maternal and Fetal Clinical Significance of Hypotension Following Labor Epidural Analgesia
The goal of this study is to learn how often blood pressure drops after an epidural for labor and how these drops may affect the parent and the baby.
- Conditions
- Maternal Hypotension, Labor Epidural Analgesia, Fetal Heart Rate Abnormalities
- Trial name
- NCT07272018
- Testing
- Epidural Analgesia (Standard Clinical Care)
- Volunteers
- 480 people
- Sponsor
- The Chaim Sheba Medical Center
Infant, Newborn, Diseases, Fetus or Neonate Affected by Cesarean Section
HeartLight: Heart Rate Monitoring for Newborn Resuscitation
This study will compare a newborn heart rate sensor (HeartLight) that is integrated into a hat with other common forms of heart rate monitoring such as electrocardiography (ECG), stethoscope and pulse oximetry (PO) in newborn…
- Conditions
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases, Fetus or Neonate Affected by Cesarean Section, Infant, Premature, Diseases
- Trial name
- HeartLight (NCT02701920)
- Testing
- HeartLight hat, The HeartLight hat with in-built sensor, HeartLight
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 184 people
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Fetal Growth Retardation
Day to Day Variation in Fetal Heart Rate Variability
This study evaluates the day-to-day variation in fetal heart rate variability based on non-invasive fetal-ECG (NI-FECG). Furthermore, the effect of fetal movements on fetal heart rate variability will be assessed.
- Trial name
- (FHRV) (NCT04289350)
- Testing
- fetal heart rate variability
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 44 people
- Sponsor
- University of Aarhus
Perinatal Death, Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn
Maternal Hyperoxygenation for Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Tracing Abnormalities
Hyperoxygenation for resuscitation of abnormal fetal heart rate tracings has been routine obstetric practice. However, there have not been any studies to support this practice.
- Conditions
- Perinatal Death, Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn, Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy, Neonatal Seizure
- Trial name
- NCT03996317
- Testing
- Room air
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Loma Linda University
Fetal Distress, Perinatal Asphyxia
Sildenafil Citrate to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Low-resource Settings
The PRISM pilot feasibility study consists of two phases to determine: 1) to delivery practices, rates of primary and secondary outcomes, and feasibility of enrollment rates, and 2) to assess the feasibility and acceptability of…
- Conditions
- Fetal Distress, Perinatal Asphyxia, Birth Asphyxia, Stillbirth
- Trial name
- PRISM (NCT05946681)
- Where
- Zambia
- Volunteers
- 1,017 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's Health
Fetal Heart Rate Abnormalities, Respiratory Depression
Safer Births - Reducing Perinatal Mortality
Safer Births is a research and development collaboration to establish new knowledge and new innovative products to better equip and increase competence of health workers for safer births and increased newborn survival worldwide.
- Conditions
- Fetal Heart Rate Abnormalities, Respiratory Depression, Birth Asphyxia, Neonatal Resuscitation
- Trial name
- NCT01869582
- Testing
- Fetoscope, Fetal heart rate, Upright Resuscitator, Resuscitation, Doppler, Fetal heart rate
- Where
- 2 sites in Tanzania
- Volunteers
- 20,000 people
- Sponsor
- Helse Stavanger HF
Stillbirth, Neonatal Death
Intermittent Auscultation Using Handheld Doppler: a Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Perinatal Outcomes in Uganda
A novel handheld Doppler has been developed which is rugged and is powered only by a hand crank. This study aims to test the use of this Doppler versus the Pinard horn to monitor the fetal heart rate in labour in a hospital…
- Trial name
- NCT02273037
- Testing
- Fetal heart rate Doppler, Partograph
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada, Uganda
- Volunteers
- 1,987 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
Labor, Epidural Analgesia
Pulse Pressure Variability With Position Before EPIdural Analgesia
Fetal heart rate abnormalities are common. Miller et al. have demonstrated that new onset fetal heart rate abnormalities after initial labor epidural dosing occur more frequently in women with a low admission pulse pressure than…
- Trial name
- PP-PERI (NCT03126136)
- Testing
- Nicom (TM)
- Where
- 4 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 1 people
- Sponsor
- Hopital Foch
High Risk Pregnancy, Congenital Heart Disease
Fetal Electrophysiologic Abnormalities in High-Risk Pregnancies Associated With Fetal Demise
Each year world-wide, 2.5 million fetuses die unexpectedly in the last half of pregnancy, 25,000 in the United States, making fetal demise ten-times more common than Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
- Conditions
- High Risk Pregnancy, Congenital Heart Disease, Fetal Hydrops, Twin Monochorionic Monoamniotic Placenta
- Trial name
- NCT03775954
- Testing
- Fetal Magnetocardiogram and Neonatal Electrocardiogram, Substudy only: Maternal/Infant Pharmacogenomic assessment postnatally
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Medical College of Wisconsin