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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1981
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1980
Joel N Helfer, New Haven, CT (US);
American Home Products Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An improved electrode structure for use in monitoring fetal heartbeat and the like. A guide tube has an open forward end adapted to be inserted through the vagina and cervix of a woman in labor. A signal acquisition device, adapted to rotatably engage a fetal epidermis, is slidably and rotatably disposed in the guide tube. A driving member is slidably and rotatably disposed in the guide tube for driving the signal acquisition device into engagement with a fetal epidermis. A line is attached to the driving member and is wrapped circumferentially around at least a portion of the driving member. A device is affixed to the line for pulling it tangentially with respect to the drive member, whereby the driving member and the signal acquisition device may be rotated for engaging a fetal epidermis.