Are you an adult between 18 and 45 years of age in your third trimester of pregnancy? You may be able to participate in a study to help us develop the next generation of non-invasive fetal health monitoring. We will ask you to perform some simple exercises while we measure from multiple sensors on your abdomen.
What you’ll do
This study involves one visit to CMU's Pittsburgh campus, lasting up to 2 hours. We will put multiple non-invasive sensors on your abdomen to measure things like fetal heart rate, fetal brain activity, map your abdominal muscle activity, and do ultrasound imaging. We will ask you to perform some simple exercises like breathing at a regular pace, squeezing your abdominal muscles, and moving between sitting and standing, while we take these recordings. We may also place a sound-transducer on your abdomen to measure the response in your fetus’s brain to sounds.
Who the researchers are looking for
Are you an adult between 18 and 45 years of age in your third trimester of pregnancy? You may be able to participate in a study to help us develop the next generation of non-invasive fetal health monitoring. We will ask you to perform some simple exercises while we measure from multiple sensors on your abdomen.
Review the provider’s screening questions. These requirements do not guarantee selection.
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will improve health. Compensation provided.
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