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Date
1958
Description
New Electronic Machine at Yale Helps Obstetricians..... Dr. Edward H. G. Hon of the Yale School of Medicine, is shown about to wheel the new electrocardiographic machine into the delivery room at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center. The machine, designed and tested by a group of Yale doctors headed by Dr. Hon, aids obstetricians during labor and delivery of infants by recording fetal heartbeat quickly and accurately and providing the doctors with a means of detecting infant distress during labor. Clinical tests have been conducted in the past two years with encouraging reports, although more research is needed before the machine can be used as a regular aid in hospitals. In many of these tests, however, the machine is given credit in helping the doctors save the life of infants by detecting fetal trouble long before the doctors were aware of any major distress.
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Keywords
Fetal Heart Monitor, Edward Hon, Electrocardiographic machine