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Sonicaid Team Operator’s Manual
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6 Care Printer (option)
The Care printer is the printer supplied when you purchase TeamCare.
6.1 Overview
The Team Care printer has an analysis system for use during the antepartum period.
The analysis measures fetal heart rate parameters and performs a test against criteria
that define a normal record. Abnormalities are highlighted.
The analysis is based on more than 48,000 records which have been compared with
outcome, and originates from work carried out by Professor G.S. Dawes and Professor
C.W.G. Redman at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The John
Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. See 6.8 References.
6.2 Intended use
The intended use of Sonicaid Care analysis is to analyse antepartum CTGs (NSTs) in
pregnancies from 26 weeks gestation onwards. It can be used on women who are
experiencing Braxton-Hicks contractions, but is not intended for use in established
labour as the fetus is then exposed to additional factors such as labour contractions,
pharmacological agents, and epidural anaesthesia.
The analysis provided by the Sonicaid Care is intended to assist, not to
replace, the physician's visual assessment of a trace.
As such, Sonicaid
Care is not a diagnosis, but an aid to clinical management. Diagnosis remains the
responsibility of an appropriately qualified physician. Indeed, both the physician's
visual assessment of the trace and the analysis provided by Sonicaid Care should be
considered within the context of a full clinical assessment before decisions are made
regarding management. Such a clinical assessment may include further tests such as
umbilical blood flow velocity waveforms or biophysical profiling.