This is our senior design team's pitch for our project.
As a biomedical engineering senior student, we take a course in which we find a medical problem and come up with a solution during the course of two semesters. My team and I have been working on this project for the past 8 months, and it is very exciting to finally have a physical working prototype of our project.
At Zinnia Medical, we saw that there is a limitation on how often expectant mothers are able to check on their baby's health since they rely on hospital equipment like ultrasound machines. Doctor visits are limited to once a month at the early stages of pregnancy, to once a week at the later stages. Meanwhile, mother purely rely on perception of their baby's movement for months as indication of health status.
This is why we have developed an ambulatory fetal monitoring system that will be worn continuously and track fetal heart rate and contractions. After discussing with several OBGYN's, we determined that these were parameters that indicated the health status of a baby.
Hope you enjoy this insight into the culminating class of the biomedical engineering program. Let me know if you have any questions about our project.
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