Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

General Electric Company

Vijith Venugopalan

Steven Mitchell Falk

Rajendra Naik

Nagapriya Kavoori Sethumadhavan

Sivaramanivas Ramaswamy

Kiran Kumar Bogineni

Kiran B

Arunesh Karthik Ks

Tamara Grassle

Dianne Kessler

A system for monitoring health during a water birth includes a health sensor configured to be coupled to a mother. The health sensor includes a first sensor configured to measure one or more health parameters of a mother, a fetus within the mother or both, a second sensor configured to generate a submerged signal representing whether the health sensor is at least partially submerged in water, and a transmitter configured to transmit communication signals representing data collected by the first sensor. One or more parameters of the communication signals change depending on whether the submerged signal represents that the health sensor is at least partially submerged.

Health monitoring system for water births

An ultrasound system includes a single transducer. The single transducer includes a flexible substrate. The single transducer also includes an array of transducer elements disposed on the flexible substrate and configured to be disposed on an abdomen of a subject having one or more fetuses disposed within a single uterus and to acquire scan data. The ultrasound system also includes a processor coupled to the single transducer and configured to receive the scan data and to determine a respective fetal heart rate of each fetus of the one or more fetuses based on the scan data.

System and method for utilizing a single ultrasound imaging device to simultaneously measure a maternal heart rate and fetal heart rates of multiple fetuses

A continuous, noninvasive fetal heart rate measurement is produced using one or more ultrasonic transducer adhered to the abdomen of the mother. Each ultrasound transducer generates an ultrasound beam having a signal strength. The signal strength is determined by an excitation voltage applied to the ultrasound transducer. An excitation voltage adjustment device is positioned between an excitation voltage generator and the ultrasound transducer to selectively control the strength of the ultrasound beam. A user input device allows an operator to control the ultrasound signal strength to vary the depth of viewing of the fetal heart rate monitor.

Manual ultrasound power control to monitor fetal heart rate depending on the size of the patient

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Karnataka, India

Vijith Venugopalan