India, May 27 -- A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Oxford has created a wearable ultrasound patch that continuously monitors babies during pregnancy. They believe this could help catch complications sooner and lower the risk of stillbirths.
The device, called UPatch, can provide real-time fetal imaging and track blood flow for hours, even when structures like the umbilical cord are moving. The researchers pointed out that existing monitoring techniques often lead to many false alarms or rely on sporadic hospital scans by trained professionals. Their findings appeared in Nature Biotechnology.
Professor Sheng Xu mentioned that with continuous monitoring, doctors can set individual baselines for patients an...