Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Winfried Peter Kaiser

Markus Silvester Wohlschlager

Lars Schmitt

Jakob Van De Laar

Harald Greiner

Haris Duric

Bernd Wilm

Kai Hassing

The present invention relates to a pregnancy monitoring system, the system comprising a fetal monitoring transducer () arranged to detect fetal medical condition information; and a control device () comprising a motion assessment unit () and a signal output unit (); wherein the fetal monitoring transducer () is arranged to detect fetal movement indicative information, wherein the motion assessment unit () is arranged to process fetal movement grading information, in addition to the fetal movement indicative information, wherein the signal output unit () is arranged to simultaneously output a fetal condition signal, particularly a fetal heart rate signal, and an augmented fetal movement signal based on the fetal movement indicative information and the fetal movement grading information, wherein a characteristic property of the original fetal movement information is still present in the augmented fetal movement signal. The disclosure further relates to a corresponding pregnancy monitoring method.

Pregnancy monitoring system and method

The present invention relates to a pregnancy monitoring system () and to a method for detecting medical condition information from a pregnant subject of interest (). The system () comprises a fetal monitoring transducer () that detects fetal medical condition information, a first motion sensor unit () associated with the fetal monitoring transducer (), the first motion sensor unit () comprising at least one first motion sensor (), a second motion sensor unit () comprising at least one second motion sensor (), and a control device () comprising an evaluation unit () that determines relative motion between the first motion sensor unit () and the second motion sensor unit (), wherein the control device () selectively permits, in an enablement mode, processing of the detected fetal medical condition information when a level of relative motion between the first motion sensor unit () and the second motion sensor unit () indicates stable measurement conditions, and wherein the control device () selectively prevents, in a suppression mode, processing of the detected fetal medical condition information when the level of relative motion between the first motion sensor unit () and the second motion sensor unit () indicates unstable measurement conditions.

The present invention suggests the use of independent, wireless, smart and therefore self-contained sensors () in a patient monitoring system (). The sensors () provide their own communication system for transmitting acquired signals to a patient monitor () etc. Furthermore a patient identifier () is associated to the communication. This approach introduces a patient-related concept, where all communication is personalized and assigned to the patient ().

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Winfried Peter Kaiser